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If you wish to spend your time scouring journals for opposing views go right ahead. Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of groups that probably study this issue:

* https://srbr.org/about-us/other-societies/

It's probably a good place to start.




Thank you for the list, I will do a little poking around just for our conversation 8 months from now. ;)

The very first publication I found in 2 minutes following links randomly, from the starting place you provided says:

“Repeatedly, [Social Jet Lag] has been found to be a risk factor for higher body mass index (BMI) or even obesity, depressive symptoms, and for behaviour that is hazardous to health, such as smoking and poor dietary habits (for a review see [15]). The effects found by Borisenkov et al. (2017) [14] correspond to a statistically small to medium effect size (r = 0.2).

Roenneberg, Winnebeck, et al. [8] however recently claimed that this effect was “biologically large”. While that may be true, such a claim is unjustified so long as we lack information about the practical meaningfulness of differences in SJL on an interval scale” [1] (emphasis mine)

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. The health claims of DST are being exaggerated. I don’t have any problem with their conclusion that perennial Standard Time seems to have “higher” support than perennial Daylight Savings, based on the available and indirect evidence, but SRBR and others calling it conclusive and “strong” is not something that either the science nor most scientists agree with. Your claim that there’s strong consensus isn’t true.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2624-5175/2/1/3/htm


> Your claim that there’s strong consensus isn’t true.

Are there any chronobiology or sleep societies that are advocating either (a) leaving the twice-yearly time jump as it is or (b) switching to year-round DST?

> Scientists around the world support this initiative to adopt Standard Time, and statements have been issued by the U.S.-based Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, the European Biological Rhythms Society, and the European Sleep Research Society. As Canadian biological rhythm researchers supporting evidence-based policy, we strongly recommend a switch to permanent Standard Time.

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-turn-back-th...

* https://archive.is/f441n (in case of paywall)

The main regions that do DST are US, Canada, and EU (30-50˚ latitude):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_countr...

And all of the societies that cover these areas say (AFAICT) go to year-round Standard Time.




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