I have to rethink my priorities I guess.

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[–] 13 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

Yesterday I saw a video with a sleep expert.

She said that human beings have a problem getting up until it's light and that Daylight Saving Time can mess that up.

I propose that AT THE VERY LEAST, during the winter, work days be one hour shorter, but with no decrease in pay, and that they start an hour later.

This will allow people to have a proper amount of sleep, and to see the sun in the morning, to be better rested, and to see the sun at the end of the day.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Sunset today was at 4:27PM in Augusta, Maine. That is a big damn problem that is only going to get worse for the next ~40 days. That same problem occurs on the eastern edge of every time zone.

    Frankly, I'm not interested in the advice of "sleep experts". I'm more interested in the advice of fitness experts, recreation experts, and everyone else who understands that mornings are the time we waste giving to bosses and clients; evenings are the time we spend on ourselves and our loved ones.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 hours ago

    For me, fitness experts and sleep experts are on the same level. They all have some different story to tell.

    I don't call my labmates molecule experts. That would be insulting but funny. Never a scientist, always an expert buahahaha.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    Yeah, if the day started at such a time that I could wake up at 8am, which is when the sky would be lightening up just before sunrise in the dead of winter (if we stayed on DST), that'd be sweet. I am one of the sun in the morning people, but I'd be willing to rethink my position.

    And the worst part is that my jobs generally start at 10am. I'm just surrounded by days that start way earlier. I also have jobs that start at 530, or 630, or 730, and so the evening light was never such a big deal for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (3 children)

    You should also go to bed when the Sun sets. you do that too, right?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago* (2 children)

    No you shouldn't. Not at all actually. Your hormones typically build up to initiate the sleep cycle around 9:30-10:00pm. It's skience brah.

    Lol if you're going to bed that early and sleeping until sun up then you have early symptoms of dementia.

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