Apparently there are numerous reasons to ditch the switch, not least of which is that there are more heart attacks on the day following the switch. (Who knew that cranking the clock ahead an hour could be so stressful?)
I guess that proves two things
- we are creatures of habit
- breaking a habit is hard enough to do that it can kill us
Moreover, the reasons for switching (eg, enhanced productivity by some measure) don't seem to survive closer scrutiny. The (under)current suggestion now is to put everyone on DST and leave it there. (And again, Saskatchewan would be in the vanguard, already being on Mountain Daylight Time.)
I remember DST being sold to the U. S. Congress on the basis of how much money it would save. Wonder if eliminating the medical costs of all those DST imposed heart attacks would be enough to nullify the supposed cost benefit? Just thinking. Given that transportation scheduling and planning is all based on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and then converted to local times for public consumption, why not just use GMT across the continent and set our wake, work, and sleep times by local daylight which is what the human body wants to do anyway.
