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Everyone changing our clocks and endangering our health is easier than changing work and school schedules for groups that actually want those things? There's a fourth hand on many clocks, often red, which solves this problem, without making it anyone else's problem.

Stress is a big part, but also sleep deprivation/jet lag equivalent. There are more suicides and car accidents in general on Mondays, (every year besides 2020) when people are going back to work and school. It takes some people months to adjust to a new sleep schedule...then a couple/few months later it changes again. Mess up sleep schedules for people and they're tired, distracted, irritable. The immune system is hampered by this, as well. All these sick, sleepy angry people have heart attacks, road rage, more sick days, and make bad decisions. Your body cannot run without your brain doing its job properly. Do this to hundreds of millions of people and statistics of accidents, crime and medical problems are going to reflect this. People _will_ die disproportionately after every time change. But hey, at least we're buying more candy and going to the mall. Yay... Check out the Mythbusters episode where Kari and Tori compared being impaired by alcohol and being impaired by lack of sleep. They drove and performed other tasks that people normally do and need to be able to concentrate upon. The results were almost the same, between the two effects.

Took me a second to figure out that typo had nothing to do with my birthstone. ;) I absolutely agree, however. We only do this for corporate greed and misguided tradition.

That far North, yeah, it should. That's nature on a planet with a tilted axis. It's just a really big ping-pong game we play with Australia, Africa, and South America. We get the shiny ball for six months, then bounce it back to them for six, repeat. The Tropics watch it go slightly left and right, while ignoring our silly Winters. It's always Summer in Ecuador and Kenya. :)

I think if you want to wake up at a different time, it's better to move your alarm, instead of moving my clock.

All of you are welcome to change your alarms, petition schools and employers for different hours, or go to ones that already have different hours, while the country matches with the rest of the world's time zones. We don't need to adjust everybody's clock _at all_ for a minority who could just wake up earlier.