In brazilian portuguese, DST usually means "doença sexualmente transmissível", or STD, in english. That makes some of the replies quite interesting to read, craving DST all year around and what not.
| sethnintendo said: Tell that to the people that had a workplace injury or heart attack thanks to losing a hour. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-heart-daylightsaving-idUSBREA2S0D420140329
"Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 percent, compared to other Mondays during the year, according to a new U.S. study released on Saturday.
By contrast, heart attack risk fell 21 percent later in the year, on the Tuesday after the clock was returned to standard time, and people got an extra hour's sleep." "the DST switch resulted in U.S. workers getting 40 minutes less sleep, a 5.7 percent increase in workplace injuries and nearly 68 percent more workdays lost to injuries."
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This bringsthree points to my mind:
First, that probably a lot (I'd guess most) of these hearth attacks would have happened in a matter of a few days to weeks, whenever something slightly out of the ordinary might cause them. They just happen to get a little more condensed because of the time shift. Of course that doesn't do away with the small increase in workplace accidents. Another point is that it would be interesting to know how many of the people affected had slept more than just an hour less than their usual. As in, shit happens so you can only go to sleep three hours later and now because of the time change you've lost yet another one. That's bound to happen to some people and would probably have havier effects than just losing an hour.
The second point is, supposing those numbers going up is actually something to be worried about, if getting an extra hour takes those numbers down almost as significantly, shouldn't maybe you guys be looking to reduce working hours or something? Clearly more free time actually makes work safer by the same token.
My third point is, why do you guys change the time from a sunday to a monday (and to a tuesday when you get an extra hour)? Around here we do that from saturday to sunday, so it affects people quite a bit less.
Oh, and how usefull DST is is largelly dependant on the latitude, so it might not be the best idea to decide on a country-wide basis when your country is like five thousand kilometers across or something.
