Research shows that sunlight is far more important to AmericansвЂ™ health, efficiency and safety in the early evening than it is in the early morning. Chamber of Commerce as well as most outdoor recreational interests favors extended DST. These activities are far more prevalent in the early evening than they are in the early morning hours, so sunlight is not nearly as helpful then. Recreation and commerce flourish in the sunДЇinally, recreation and commerce flourish in daylight and are hampered by evening darkness.ДЄmericans are less willing to go out and shop in the dark, and itвЂ™s not very easy to catch a baseball in darkness either. Plus, standard time doesnвЂ™t offer the energy or lifesaving or crime prevention effects of DST. However, I think itвЂ™s important to note that these same sleep benefits are available under year-round DST, too. If thatвЂ™s not bad enough, a study from 2000 shows that the major financial market indexes NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ average negative returns on the Monday trading day following both clock switches, presumably because of disrupted sleep cycles.Д¬ritics of biannual clock switching sometimes use these points to argue in favor of permanent standard time. ThereвЂ™s even an uptick during the week in November when the clocks вЂњfall back.вЂќ Heart attacks increase 24 percent in the week after the U.S. It wreaks havoc with peopleвЂ™s sleep cycles. Avoiding clock switches improves sleepД¬ritics of DST are correct about one thing: The biannual clock switch is bad for health and welfare. in 1973, which helped combat the effect of OPECвЂ™s oil embargo. Similarly, DST resulted in 150,000 barrels of oil saved by the U.S. Officials at the California Energy Commission estimated that 3.4 percent of CaliforniaвЂ™s winter energy usage could be saved by moving to year-round DST. This rationale motivated some in California to recommend permanent DST a decade ago, when the state experienced recurrent electricity shortages and rolling brown-outs. Under standard time, the sun rises earlier, reducing morning energy consumption, but only half of Americans are awake to be able to use the sun. Having more sun in the evening requires not just less electricity to provide lighting, but reduces the amount of oil and gas required to heat homes and businesses when people need that energy most. But a considerable portion of the population is still asleep at sunrise, resulting in significantly less demand for energy then. Virtually everyone in our society is awake and using energy in the early evening hours when the sun sets. When the sun is out later in the evening, peak energy loads are reduced. Many people donвЂ™t know that the original justification for the creation of DST was to save energy, initially during World War I and II and then later during the 1973 OPEC oil crisis. Crime rates are lower by 30 percent in the morning to afternoon hours, even when those morning hours occur before sunrise, when itвЂ™s still dark.ДЄ 2013 British study found that improved lighting in the evening hours could reduce the crime rate by up to 20 percent. This is especially true for crimes by juveniles, which peak in the after-school and early evening hours.Д¬riminals strongly prefer to do their work in the darkness of evening and night. Moving sunlight into the evening hours has a far greater impact on the prevention of crime than it does in the morning.

imposed year-round standard time.Дarkness is also a friend of crime. The opposite effect would occur if the U.S. Standard time has precisely the opposite impact, by moving sunlight into the morning.ДЄ meta-study by Rutgers researchers demonstrated that 343 lives per year could be saved by moving to year-round DST.

Fatal vehicle-on-pedestrian crashes increase threefold when the sun goes down.ДST brings an extra hour of sunlight into the evening to mitigate those risks. The evening rush hour is twice as fatal as the morning for various reasons: Far more people are on the road, more alcohol is in driversвЂ™ bloodstreams, people are hurrying to get home and more children are enjoying outdoor, unsupervised play. Simply put, darkness kills вЂ“ and darkness in the evening is far deadlier than darkness in the morning.

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