The impact of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on daily life has gained a lot of attention
in the past few years and, notably, in the past months since the European Commission
addressed the issue. It was suggested recently [
[1]
] through evidences that the impact of one-hour change of time in the circadian timing system may be relevant in terms of public health. Perhaps
inadvertently, authors only addressed one leg of the problem —the magnitude of the
change of time—, nonetheless they arrived to a bold statement “DST should be discontinued.”- Meira e Cruz M.
- Miyazawa M.
- Manfredini R.
- Cardinali D.
- Madrid J.A.
- Reiter R.
- et al.
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Published online: February 19, 2019
Accepted:
February 10,
2019
Received:
January 28,
2019
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- Impact of Daylight Saving Time on circadian timing system: An expert statementEuropean Journal of Internal MedicineVol. 60
- PreviewEven though that in the very beginning of Daylight Saving Time (DST) policy, standards were decided individually by each country, and were not regulated, most European member States have progressively been adopting the so called “summer time” since 1970s or 1980s which had been gradually harmonized under EU law [1]. Public discomfort have been argued for years and claims from several social groups regarding the need for a public inquiry were attended. However, after European Union decided to properly ask citizens about their feelings regarding Daylight Saving Time, a small fraction of European citizens (68% from Germany) had told that they don't want to change the time twice a year.
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