Paul Eggert wrote in <9254c4c2-3e57-fd46-0a11-6c7b72d41e08@cs.ucla.edu>: |A recently-published report by researchers from Pitt and USI found \ |that daylight |saving time reduces sleep duration by an average of 19 minutes in the \ |US, and |that this harms people's health and workers' wages. The researchers \ |used CDC and |US Census data to compare behavior on the western and eastern sides \ |of time zone |boundaries, and reported that individuals using daylight-saving time \ |are 11% |more likely to be overweight and 5.6% more likely to be obese. On average \ |their |wages are 3% lower. Effects are strongest on those with early work \ |schedules. I for one think of such as pure brainfuck, like students dropping acid on living mice and are, well - what?, when observing "intense licking" of this poor souls which know they are dying in this desert place, without being able to do just about anything against it. May they own the heaven they deserve. (Not meaning the students here.) 11 percent overweight, 6 percent obese. Man, women and all the other ones, too, they should take a paternal leave, sleep three hours a day and wake up ten times a night at irregular intervals. Then have a tea ceremony, and roast their coffee not their half pounder within its sugered bun before drinking it, instead of using a tablet. Tabloid, sorry. Please let me thus quote the famous words which had been spoken: "i am not convinced". |The researchers give the following bounds for the US annual economic \ |costs of |these effects: $2.35 billion ($82 per capita) for increased healthcare \ |costs, |and $612 million ($23 per capita) for worker productivity losses. These \ |are |lower bounds: actual costs are most likely higher. Costs are in 2017 \ |dollars. | |Giuntella G, Mazzonna F. Sunset time and the economic effects of social \ |jetlag; |evidence from US time zone borders. J Health Econ. 2019. |https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.03.007 (draft: |https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3dd9/bf55292c1396a912b82c736ea3485dd5b8\ |84.pdf) | |A summary can be found in: | |Ingraham C. How living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous \ |to your |health. Washington Post. 2019-04-19 06:00 -04. |https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/19/how-living-wrong-side\ |-time-zone-can-be-hazardous-your-health/ I blindly assume they had to sit five hours in their Tesla while crawling through an american mega city evening rush hour. Wonder whether that has been accounted for. --End of <9254c4c2-3e57-fd46-0a11-6c7b72d41e08@cs.ucla.edu> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)