Aug. 29, 2020
1:09 a.m.
On 8/28/20 4:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin via tz wrote:
In arguing for an advantage of Standard over Daylight time the authors naively ignore that clock time is just a coordinate with arbitrary origin.
I don't see ignorance there. The position statement says (1) there's good evidence that twice-yearly changes are harmful, and (2) there's less-good but still good-enough evidence that year-round DST has health risks. Whether the first hour of work is labeled "3" (as in the Bible) or "8" or "9" is irrelevant to those statements; what matters is the time that workers arise, relative to the sun.