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Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:00 UTC

Daylight Saving Time gained worldwide acceptance -- or was forced onto people, depending on your view of things -- around WWII. It was initially proposed as an energy saving measure and a way to boost the economy. Turns out it did neither and it ended up causing some serious health repercussions to the citizens of nations that engaged in this idiotic practice. Accidents, heart attacks and increased rates of depression and suicide along with sleep disturbances and general confusion all follow 'springing forward and falling back'.

On this episode of the Health and Wellness Show we'll explore the topic of Daylight Saving Time and how it effects the human body.

Running Time: 00:40:36

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Rowan Cocoan · 2017-03-19T16:42:20Z

A subject near and clear to my heart, the irrational inanity of which I've griped about since I was 7!

I think I once read or heard that it was originally proposed to swing the opposite way - spring back, fall forward. Anyone ever heard of that?

R.C.

P.s., Living in Fl. I say just leave it at D.S.T. all year long. (Small bright side, we'd never have to give that one hour back and would all live an extra one; at least those of us who might fall in standard time. (I'm curious what folks up North would say as they are the ones this was supposedly created for.)

Perhaps it was a sinister plot by the makers of wall clocks. How many here have lost one due to problems relating thereto? (When I had employees, it was - despite my best efforts - something that would happen once every two years, at the longest.)

R.C.

LindaMay · 2017-03-19T23:32:04Z

Rowan Cocoan actually, as a chick from the north, that little hour actually does encourage us; in the winter morn.. to get our butts outta bed and in the spring we re all excited about jumpin around for an extra hour.

But it makes no difference to me.

LindaMay · 2017-03-19T16:54:03Z

I dont do time! It s a prison. I fly free. The best leash of all is no leash at all.

I go with the flow. Timing is sweet. Lol

Rowan Cocoan · 2017-03-19T18:37:40Z

LindaMay And ain't you too. . .

R.C.

LindaMay · 2017-03-20T04:03:58Z

LindaMay duh!! lol... i messed that one upppp

The only leash long enough is no leash at all

Rick Pisces · 2017-03-19T18:14:03Z

Teenage Sons Don't Handle DST Very Well

I noticed that my two sons suffered greatly with DST. They were being forced to get up in the morning an hour before their biological clock was ready. Teens grow when sleeping and they got shortchanged. First period high school teachers all lamented that the kids were all still asleep during their first class. Arizona does not do DST and it is a wonderful blessing!

Hugh Mann · 2017-03-19T23:02:57Z

What about the moronic calendar we're using. It's worse than the DST mind-phuck. Some months have thirty one days, some have thirty and one has twenty-eight. It would be nice if we reverted back to the lunar calendar which makes perfect sense.

LindaMay · 2017-03-19T23:33:26Z

Hugh, i have my personal take on your question. But unless anyone specifically asks i will refrain. You ll all roll your eyes at me lol

hobnob · 2017-03-20T00:05:52Z

February should be the last month of the year. Every month should have thirty days. Add five days to whichever single month, probably the last one.

But as for this topic, yeah DST is useless. I agree with the idea of staying with DST indefinitely.

Rowan Cocoan · 2017-03-20T05:43:56Z

Hugh Mann & "The PTB as less than tadpoles in a tiny pond; rather, they are pathetic amoebae in a teardrop of God." RC

Hugh Mann But wouldn't something that makes perfect sense be perfectly non-sensible/insensible in this illogical society which our PTB's have long crafted nay, sh*tted out upon our societies and we mere useless breathers etc. (As they see it.)*

Little do those who so proudly think of themselves as part of the PTB (e.g., Bilderbergers, Bush*ts, and HRClintonistas, et al ) realize that they are merely - and, at most, - temporarily - simply bigger tadpoles (not frogs) in a tiny pond;

Nay! Larger amoebae in God's teardrop.

By our awareness of those simple truths, God's tear is one of pride for those good souls amongst us, and of pity... all the way through wrath / anger at those STS amoebae pond/teardrop scum who have ignored so very, very many messages/truths that they are likely aware of but which they’ve traded along with what worthless integrity they might have ever had for whatever rupees their souls were once possibly worth.

R.C.

* Akin to the ‘in a time of universal deceit, speaking truth is a revolutionary act.’ (Orwell.)

RC

Jean Michel · 2017-03-20T17:20:09Z

In the ancient days, all of the months were even and there was a period of the year that was not a part of any month. We should revert to that.

The origin story that I have heard about DST is that it was created so that people getting off of work at five would have extra daylight to go play golf.

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2017-03-20T17:31:45Z

When I was a child, I was told that the clocks going back and forwards was to make it safer for children in the North when they were walking to and from school...at the time, I thought that was very sweet. I think it should be voluntary, just to mess things up completely!

aurora · 2017-03-20T21:04:55Z

This year Turkey did not use the daylight saving time and I think it was the right thing to do.

earthling · 2017-03-21T17:09:45Z

Well, I would like to add my own personal take on that indeed idiotic habit. First of all I'm against it and I have reasons for it. At some point

we had gathered around the house around 30 (!!!) watches (wrist watches, watches on appliances e. t. c.) and I had to change the time on all of them twice a year. A friend and co-worker said that I reminded him of Louis 14th or 15th or 16th who was obsessed with time accuracy and had a large number of watches in the Versailles. I'm not, it just so happened that too many watches had been gathered and I had to readjust a lot of them, especially after a power failure.

When I was a kid I couldn't understand why we changed the time but I did it anyway. Later on I read a story that it was the idea of two Englishmen

who thought that it was a way to save on the electricity bill. Yes, maybe it was when all the power consumption in the average household was that of 5 bulbs ! Today the average power consumption on households is a 100 times that amount, it has skyrocketed! Despite that we have kept that idiotic habit.

The second, often not thought of subject, is that time is relative. It's a product of motion in space and therefore different everywhere. So whose time ? To make matters worse when in the northern hemisphere we are freezing to death it's summertime in the southern hemisphere and vice versa. Not that only but every particular place has it's own micro--climate. So yes, another moronic habit is these stupid calendars we use that in my opinion should be readjusted according to climate/weather conditions...But whose climate and weather conditions ? Go figure...With our senses, experience and knowledge we can tell day from night, heat from cold and all the rest. Accuracy and economy are different matters. So I dug a bit deeper. The reason we really need time synchronization came from where else ? Military ops. There

and there only it makes sense.

I'm a bit old school due to age mostly and I believe that the only jewel a man should wear is a good wristwatch. Over the years

I have changed many but eventually I became an accuracy freak and I found out that all my watches were either fast or slow. We 're talking about expensive watches. So the other day I visited the local mall and discussed about what I wanted with the shop owner who sold watches from 200$ to 2000$. Eventually I said I'm not interested in any of the watches he had , I wanted an accurate MOBILE one. He suggested one that CASIO had manufactured, a casual looking watch, which is the style I prefer and was synchronizing time receiving signals from 6 (!!!) different satellites. One in the U.S., the second in the U.K. , the third in Russia, the fourth in China and 2 more in Japan. Perfect ! And it looked good too. But it was only available on-line. Price : Between 800$-900$. Yeah, right, maybe next Christmas . F**K Time. It's just a concept in our heads. It has certain applications in physics, but otherwise it's a continuity, we break it down because it is convenient for us making the classic mistake of trying to adjust nature to ourselves instead of the other way round.

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