References - Fixing Daylight Saving Time is THIS Easy
References - Fixing Daylight Saving Time is THIS Easy
Benjamin Franklin and early ideas about DST
Benjamin Franklin’s 1784 (April 26, 1784) essay on DST to Journal de Paris http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html
Early "railroad times" in United States
Time-table circa 1857 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Conference#/media/File:Comparative-time-table.jpg
International Meridian Conference (1884) to standardize time
George Hudson and the first proposal to change clocks twice a year
On Seasonal Time, by G. V. Hudson (read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 8th October, 1898) http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_31/rsnz_31_00_008570.html
William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, and "Willett Time"
The Waste of Daylight (1905) pamphlet http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/willett.html
Willett's memorial sundial in Kent, UK https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMJ0QX_Willetts_Memorial_Petts_Wood_Kent_UK
Daylight Saving Time in World War I
Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. Basic Books, 2009.Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. Basic Books, 2009
Daylight Clubs in Detroit and Cincinnati
Why Michigan is on Eastern time http://nighttraintodetroit.com/2017/07/28/why-is-michigan-on-eastern-time/
Bartky, Ian R. One time fits all: the campaigns for Global Uniformity. Stanford University Press, 2007. https://books.google.com/books?id=rC6sAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA186&ots=YIyUUb5gHv&dq=cincinnati%201909%20National%20Daylight%20Association&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q=cincinnati%201909%20National%20Daylight%20Association&f=false
Lobbying from manufacturing tycoons, labor unions, and baseball teams convinced President Woodrow Wilson to make Daylight Saving Time federal law in 1918
Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. Basic Books, 2009.
DST from World War II through LBJ's Uniform Time Act of 1966
U.S. States can only exempt themselves to remain on Standard Time
National Conference of State Legislators https://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/daylight-savings-time-state-legislation.aspx
Congressional Research Service report 2019 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45208
1970s Energy Crisis and DST in Europe
Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. Basic Books, 2009.
Energy use increases in many places during DST
Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana - Matthew J. Kotchen, Laura E. Grant https://www.nber.org/papers/w14429
DST was pushed by retail and food businesses, and golf
Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. Basic Books, 2009.
Golf profits for extending DST https://books.google.com/books?id=CLkRx5PDAbgC&lpg=PA198&dq=daylight%20saving%20national%20golf%20foundation&pg=PA148#v=onepage&q=daylight%20saving%20national%20golf%20foundation&f=false
Effects of DST on crime reduction https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/10/29/fighting-crime-with-daylight-saving-time/
Effects of clock changing on circadian rhythms and sleep deprivation https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1087079212001141
Negative effects of clock changing:
More traffic accidents https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/01/30/spring-forward-daylight-saving-time-brings-surge-deadly-crashes
More workplace injuries https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-12532-013
People spend more time than usual on the internet at work https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120307112618.htm
Can lower stock market returns https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2466/13.17.PR0.109.6.863-878
Judges give harsher punishments https://hbr.org/2017/02/sleep-deprived-judges-dole-out-harsher-punishments
People feel more depressed when they fall back in the autumn https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2017/05000/Daylight_Savings_Time_Transitions_and_the.7.aspx
End of DST leads to more automobile/wildlife collisions https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0632
Sleep deprivation and major accidents (Chernobyl, Challenger, Valdez) https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM199604043341416
The case for permanent Standard Time instead
Society for Research on Biological Rhythms https://srbr.org/advocacy/daylight-saving-time-presskit/