As most of America prepares for the Nov. 1 return of standard time, 63% want one fixed, year-round time, a new survey finds.
“Evidence of the negative impacts of seasonal time changes continue to accumulate, and there is real momentum behind the push to end seasonal time changes,” said Dr. Kannan Ramar, president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, which favors a fixed, nationwide time.
A recent position statement from AASM said public health and safety would benefit if seasonal time changes were eliminated. It called for permanent use of standard time, which it said more closely aligns with the daily rhythms of the body’s internal clock.
More than 20 organizations have endorsed the statement. They include the National Safety Council, the National Parent Teacher Association, and the World Sleep Society.
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It would be terrible for the frum world if the current system changes,
Either you will have to be up before eight every day inclding Shabbos to make the second zman krias shema in the summer and you will have to daven in your car if you work in a non-Jewish area and need to be at work at 9:00 in the winter.
Luckily the farmers who have a lot more clout than frum people also want the current system. They don’t want to have to wake up at 4:00 AM to milk their cows in the summer and have to wake their cows up in the winter to be able milk them and have the milk delivered to the market that day. The farmers also need the dew to have fallen later in the summer and earlier in the winter to work on their properties.
For those who want to daven and say Krias shema before the zman, it would be davening earlier on shabbos than they are used to.
That would be terrible-netz would be 8:15-8:45 depending on your city, earliest possible shachris would be too late(7:45 and even later, depending on city) for anyone that need to start their commute early. Would people unfortunately skip davening?
The winter time is perfect for me year round plus it’s a necessity for frum Jews because if you leave the summer time for the winter than you won’t be able to daven shachris before 7:45 AM.
Agree that winter time is perfect for religious Jews but I think you wrote it wrong. It should be: because if you leave the WINTER time and change to the SUMMER you won’t be able to daven shachris before 7:45 AM.
President Trump is the only leader in the US with courage to stop the useless time change and leave it for the Standard Time. If Trump will stop it, all countries will follow suite. A few months after election they should send a petition to President Trump about this issue.
I vote we suspend “Standard Time” and stick to Summer Time. So frustrating when it gets dark so early!
This will be a disaster for yiddishkeit.
You must be a woman. Daylight Savings Time (Summer time) can be very tough for men who want to daven Shachris before going to work. Besides, it’s harder to get kids into bed if the day is still so long. Hence, frum Jews would vote to suspend DST.
Wooowh. That moving picture is getting me dizzy. No, don’t change the clocks anymore. Leave us alone. Stop messing with zman krias shma and zman teffila. So it’s a little dark? Nu nu.
Same thing with the summer camps. Stop changing the time to “camp time”. So stupid and immature. Time to grow up.
You’d have to get up early to make shachris? Too bad. Do it.
That’s what EVERYONE did before Ben Franklin instituted DST in the 1700s
Switching 2 times a year is HORRIBLE for moms and kids.
Since I’m a mom, I want to get rid of it. 🙂
Switching 2 times a year is HORRIBLE for moms and kids.? Too bad. Do it.
That’s what EVERYONE did after Ben Franklin instituted DST in the 1700s
Since I’m a frum person , I want to get rid of it.