[OC] In the past four years, 19 states have enacted legislation or passed resolutions, awaiting approval by Congress, to make daylight saving permanent.dandle t1_jby57st wrote
Reply to comment by CluelessMochi in [OC] In the past four years, 19 states have enacted legislation or passed resolutions, awaiting approval by Congress, to make daylight saving permanent. by gridnews
There is high consensus among researchers that DST has a variety of negative health consequences and that permanently moving to DST would compound those consequences. Professional organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have issued statements opposed to making DST permanent.
There are two possible reasons that legislators are advocating for permanent DST: 1) They think that they are advocating for permanent Standard Time because they wrongly associate the name with the fewer hours of daylight per winter day, and 2) They are dismissing the health impacts and are working on behalf of retailers, which have found that there is increased spending with more daylit shopping hours in the afternoons and evenings.
CluelessMochi t1_jby6fy3 wrote
I didn’t share a values judgment, just what I’ve heard based on lawmakers and people, but you’re probably right it’s based on lobbying from corporations
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