{"id":3512,"date":"2015-03-06T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insulatorsjatc.org\/this-sunday\/"},"modified":"2015-03-06T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T21:23:00","slug":"this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insulatorsjatc.org\/es\/this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"ESTE DOMINGO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daylight saving time strikes again Sunday at 2 a.m., at least for every state except Hawaii and Arizona. Though DST has been a part of life in the United States since World War I, its origin and effects remain misunderstood, even by some of the lawmakers responsible for it. Here are some common myths about daylight saving time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. <\/span>Daylight saving time was meant to help farmers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of us heard, at some point in elementary school, that DST was developed because of farming. The idea that more daylight means more time in the field for farmers continues to get airtime on the occasional local news report<\/a> and in state legislatures \u2014 \u201cFarmers wanted it because it extends hours of working in the field,\u201d Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn offered<\/a> after filing a bill that would abolish DST. Even Michael Downing, who wrote a book about DST, has said<\/a> that before researching the subject, \u201cI always thought we did it for the farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, the inverse is true. \u201cThe farmers were the reason we never had a peacetime daylight saving time until 1966,\u201d Downing told<\/a> National Geographic. \u201cThey had a powerful lobby and were against it vociferously.\u201d The lost hour of morning light meant they had to rush to get their crops to market. Dairy farmers were particularly flummoxed: Cows adjust to schedule shifts rather poorly<\/a>, apparently.<\/p>\n

Daylight saving time, in this or any other country, was never adopted to benefit farmers; it was first proposed by William Willett to the British Parliament in 1907 as a way to take full advantage of the day\u2019s light. Germany was the first country to implement it, and the United States took up the practice upon entering World War I, hypothetically to save energy. How did farmers end up being the mythical source of DST? Downing suggests that because they were such vocal opponents, \u201cthey became associated into the popular image of daylight-saving and it got inverted on them. It was just bad luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. <\/span>The extra daylight makes us healthier and happier.<\/em><\/p>\n

That additional vitamin D is good for us, right? Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) thinks so<\/a>. \u201cIn addition to the benefits of energy savings, fewer traffic fatalities, more recreation time and increased economic activity, Daylight Saving Time helps clear away the winter blues a little earlier,\u201d he said in a statement last year. \u201cGovernment analysis has proven that extra sunshine provides more than just smiles. .\u2009.\u2009. We all just feel sunnier after we set the clocks ahead.\u201d Gwyneth Paltrow agrees<\/a>, opining to British Cosmopolitan in 2013: \u201cWe\u2019re human beings and the sun is the sun \u2014 how can it be bad for you? I think we should all get sun and fresh air.\u201d<\/p>\n

A little more vitamin D might be healthy, but the way DST provides it is not so beneficial to our well-being. Experts have warned about spikes in workplace accidents, suicide and headaches \u2014 just to name a few health risks \u2014 when DST starts and ends. One 2009 study<\/a> of mine workers found a 5.7 percent increase in injuries in the week after the start of DST, which researchers thought was most likely due to disruption in the workers\u2019 sleep cycles. An examination of Australian data found a slight uptick in male suicides<\/a> in the weeks following time shifts, to the effect of half an excess death per day, which the researchers blamed on the destabilizing effect of sleep disruption on people with mental health problems. And some physicians warn that changes in circadian rhythm can trigger<\/a> cluster headaches, leading to days or weeks of discomfort.<\/p>\n

The literature on these health effects is far from conclusive, but spring sunshine does not outweigh the downsides of sleep disruption across the board.<\/p>\n

3. <\/span>It helps us conserve energy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Congress passed the Energy Policy Act \u2014 which extended DST by a month \u2014 in 2005, ostensibly to save four more weeks\u2019 worth of energy. \u201cAn annual rite of spring, daylight saving time is also a matter of energy conservation. By having a little more natural daylight at our disposal, we can help keep daily energy costs down for families and businesses,\u201d Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who co-sponsored the legislation along with then-Rep. Markey, said<\/a> in a 2013 statement.<\/p>\n

But in a follow-up study<\/a> on the effects of the extension, the California Energy Commission found the energy savings to be a paltry 0.18 percent at best. Other studies have indicated that people may use less of some kinds of energy, such as electric lights, but more of others. More productive daylight hours might be meant to get you off the couch and recreating outside, but they\u2019re just as likely to lead to increased air-conditioner use if you stay home and gas guzzling if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

A study<\/a> in Indiana actually found a slight increase in energy use after the entire state adopted DST (for years, only some counties followed it), costing the state\u2019s residents about $9 million; the researchers believed that more air conditioning in the evening was largely to blame. That\u2019s a far cry from the $7 million that Indiana state representatives had hoped residents would save in electricity costs.<\/p>\n

4. <\/span>DST benefits businesses.<\/em><\/p>\n

We know that businesses think daylight saving time is good for the economy \u2014 just look at who lobbied for increased DST in 2005: chambers of commerce. The grill and charcoal industries, which successfully campaigned to extend DST from six to seven months in 1986, say they gain $200 million in sales with an extra month of daylight saving. When the increase to eight months came up for a vote in 2005, it was the National Association of Convenience Stores that lobbied hardest \u2014 more time for kids to be out trick-or-treating meant more candy sales.<\/p>\n

But not all industries love daylight saving time. Television ratings tend to suffer during DST, and networks hate it. \u201cCome March, when daylight savings time and the HUT [households using television] level goes down in the early evening, it really takes its toll on the 8 o\u2019clock hour, particularly for comedies,\u201d Kevin Reilly, then chairman of Fox Entertainment, said<\/a> in 2014, explaining his decision to cut the network\u2019s 8 p.m. comedy hour.<\/p>\n

Airlines have also complained loudly<\/a> about increased DST. When DST was lengthened, the Air Transport Association estimated that the schedule-juggling necessary to keep U.S. flights lined up with international travel would cost the industry $147 million. DST hurts other transportation interests, too: Amtrak is known to halt its overnight trains for an hour when clocks change in November so they don\u2019t show up and leave from their 3 a.m. destinations early. In the spring, trains have to try to make up lost time so they can stick to the schedule.<\/p>\n

DST might also cost employers in the form of lost productivity. A 2012 study found that workers were more likely to cyberloaf <\/a>\u2014 doing non-work-related things on their computers during the day \u2014 on the Monday after a DST switch. Study participants who lost an hour of sleep ended up wasting 20 percent of their time.<\/p>\n

5. <\/span>Standard time is standard.<\/em><\/p>\n

Guess what time we\u2019re on for eight months of the year? Daylight saving time. In what universe is something that happens for only one-third of the time the \u201cstandard\u201d? Even before the 2007 change, DST ran for seven months out of 12.<\/p>\n

In fact, some opponents of DST aren\u2019t against daylight saving time per se: They think it should be adopted as the year-round standard time. Because it basically already is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El horario de verano vuelve a empezar el domingo a las 2 a. m., al menos en todos los estados, excepto Haw\u00e1i y Arizona. 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