American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
No... make daylight savings time <i>permanent</i> instead.<p>As the paper states, the biggest problem is with the <i>transition</i>.<p>The paper also argues that standard time aligns more naturally with our circadian rhythm... but doesn't bother to compare that with the psychological benefit we get from hanging out with friends in daylight after work in the summer, or the psychological benefit of it not being dark when you go home and have dinner with your family.<p>I totally get that people who wake up early in the winter prefer standard time... but it really seems that for the population as a whole, permanent DST is the better option. And implementing it is so easy: once we're already in DST in the summer... you just never "fall back" to standard in the fall.