Daylight savings time thought

[fosgate3]

I wonder if daylight savings time was really just a cover story for the beginnings of the plot to create mental stress in people, making them more susceptible to the media and easier to manipulate. Couple that with the further breakdown of mental and emotional acuity that came from political uprest, wars (Korea, Vietnam) and you begin to make the masses controllable. Just a rambling thought. Oh and my first thread too! Thanks for reading.

[shaberon]

Hi and welcome,


well it is an on-going argument with multiple points of view.

The change of an hour is disruptive to circadian rhythm, and there are perhaps more heart attacks and accidents when this happens.

In the US, it was made permanent by Nixon 1974 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time), repealed by Ford later that same year. Currently, permanency is promoted by Rubio. "Permanent" means we shift the clock one time and it stays stuck; there would be no more changing.

Arizona does not observe it, although the Navajo Nation does.

If you just look at Time Zones, they're not particularly accurate -- jagged and blocky.

Most of the arguments for DST are for commercial purposes. Farmers don't want it; potato salesmen do.


My reaction is that modern propaganda as we know it originates with the Boer War. Previously, there were presses, posters, newspapers, etc., which were kind of limited and slow. In the late 1800s was the arrival of color printing and the ability to wallpaper London overnight. And it managed to sell a capitalists' war to an unsupportive public. The worst ones are in Canada. Why would you as a Canadian kid suddenly have a need to exterminate Germanic animals in the Transvaal. You actually don't. But it seemed to have worked.

How to run a clock, on the other hand, is still worth debating, in a latitude-dependent manner. Try telling this to someone who lives at the equator; it will make no sense to them, because daylight is always about the same. And how would it work for someone who gets four months of night?

In the sense that making the adjustment is irritating, then yes, I suppose it contributes to depression and anxiety along with a million other things that drain a person. It may be symptomatic to how an increase in business does not care how you feel. Obviously you can see why they would want it forever in Florida. That is a special place that is 100% carpetbagged and a vast plantation that cannot represent sanity for ordinary humanity. But then it is probably Disney that takes the cake for actual thought control.

[Johnnycomelately]

Hi Fossey, and welcome too.

Canada’s province of BC, British Columbia on our left coast, has just enacted a halt to these time changes. They have done the Spring switch to DST, but will leave it at that going forward.

I recently read a story in that which mainly covered some scientist’s concern that choice (of daylight time vs. standard time) is the worst of the options. Winter darkness in da morning, when our days are already short.

To your misgivings, I can’t say. I’ve worked on oilfield drilling jobs, where on normal crewing there are 3 crews. Starts with a week of 12 hr daylights, then a “short-change” 8 hr shift going into a week of 12 hr graveyards, followed by a week off. That last change, starting at 8 am then tavelling home after 12 hard hours work, has claimed righand lives. Sometimes we flew to Edmonton or Calgary (once in Nabors Drilling’s Learjet lol), but more often we just drove our dailies. Precision Drilling once had a big safety presentation, company wide, about the value of seatbelts. Previous to that, I met a former Driller who spoke of our then-crewmember, who he said had rolled his truck coming out, and would be in a certain Calgary hospital/place for the rest of his life.

Shaberon, thanks for your insight, wowsers as usual.