Oh no-- that clock thing again? Cue the debaters...

After retirement I'm always wondering Is today Tuesday or Saturday? It doesn't really matter does it?

Who cares about daylight savings? I have a hard time staying awake more than 6 hours so time doesn't even matter anymore :) A lot of our members are posting 24 hours a day so I'm pretty sure they have the same problem.
 
I’m pretty good on time now. Well, I know when it’s 12pm and I know when 6pm is approaching. My wife has me on intermittent fasting. Can’t eat before noon or after 6. So my brain is locked on those two times of day. I’m getting lunch going by 1130 so it’s ready at noon and then I eat pretty much the rest of the day until 6. I have lost 6 or 7 pounds in about a week.
Doctor told me I needed to lose 12 pounds by my next visit. I told her that’s not what I’m paying her for. Just stick to refilling my meds and we’ll get along fine.
 
Jackiemac said:
Yeah its rough the 1 or 2 hour change. 😂 Try 8 hours....
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Jet-lag is the term for that. I hate that feeling. Flying direct from the U.S.A. to Australia is miserable. If I were to go again I'd take a cabin on a ship rather than fly.
On the topic of time change, the medical community states it increases the odds of heart attacks and strokes.
 
RayIN said:
On the topic of time change, the medical community states it increases the odds of heart attacks and strokes.
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Not in my case. I worked graveyard here in CA so when Tom & I went overseas, I was wide awake during the day and got sleepy at night.

-Don- Auburn, CA
 
RayIN said:
On the topic of time change, the medical community states it increases the odds of heart attacks and strokes.
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I worked an irregular schedule for decades. Regular 9-5 office hours interspersed with graveyard transmitter maintenance shifts - for some reason radio stations object to being taken off the air during the day for transmitter work. My circadian rhythms were disrupted several times a month.

I'm still here, my heart's fine and as far as I know so's my brain.
 
Lou Schneider said:
I worked an irregular schedule for decades. Regular 9-5 office hours interspersed with graveyard transmitter maintenance shifts - for some reason radio stations object to being taken off the air during the day for transmitter work. My circadian rhythms were disrupted several times a month.

I'm still here, my heart's fine and as far as I know so's my brain.
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Same here. I even had rotating shifts for a while (I hated that!), but I worked mostly graveyard my last 15 years in SF's 9-1-1 Center. 13 hour shifts, three nights in a row and had the rest of the week off.

I worked (if we can call a sinecure as "work") Sundays, Monday and Tuesday nights, holidays included, which was fine with me as then I got paid triple time.

And Tom & I often stayed at our Cold Springs Valley (near Reno) house during my off time from SF as I had most of the week off every week.

-Don- Auburn, CA
 
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Considering my wife is still working full time (remote) and I retired 5 years ago now (wow!! that much TIME has passed already) .... the only way we have a schedule is because of her work schedule.

But, even that gets confusing considering we are in Louisiana (Central Time Zone) about 8 months of the year now, and Indiana and North Carolina (Eastern Time Zone).

Her work day (in Indiana starts at 7:00 am, no matter if it's DST or not). Adjusting her daily routine becomes challenging. Sometimes is bed-time and only 6:30 pm, and sometimes it's bed-time 10:30 pm. Naturally waking up (without an alarm clock) will range between 4:30 am and 6:30 am.

Now, add to the mix the time change from DST and back, depending upon where we are parked "that day", it can get real confusing.

Our bodies are on this biological clock. But, what time is is locally is still a mystery!
 
National news this morning said the 1 hour time change increases the number of heart attacks & strokes by 24%. This is the perfect example of statistics manipulation by scientists creating fake news. It seems 50% of the population believes traditional news outlets over common sense.

Our species evolved sleeping adjusted by daylight hours. Sunset varies by several hours per year except at the equator. If a 1 hour time change causes death humans would be extinct by now. People actually live longer away from the equator.
 
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Actually, they said that there has been a 24% increase in the number of cardiac and stroke related events associated with the Monday after DST implementation. The suspected "cause" seems to be related to disruptions of Circadian Rhythm , sleep deprivation and stress over schedule disruptions, among people with existing cardiac related conditions. So, they are saying that the actual time change might be an associative factor, but does not quite rise to being the actual cause of the event.
Just sayin',...
 
I seem to have lost my Circadian Rhythm when I retired 8 years ago. My sleep cycle varies by several hours per day and I have a hard time even staying awake more than 6 hours at a time. Guess I'll be passing away any time now:)
 
Lou Schneider said:
I worked an irregular schedule for decades. Regular 9-5 office hours interspersed with graveyard transmitter maintenance shifts - for some reason radio stations object to being taken off the air during the day for transmitter work. My circadian rhythms were disrupted several times a month.

I'm still here, my heart's fine and as far as I know so's my brain.
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BTW, thanks for starting up this topic again.
 
TheBar said:
National news this morning said the 1 hour time change increases the number of heart attacks & strokes by 24%. This is the perfect example of statistics manipulation by scientists creating fake news.
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Huh? How/why are scientists "faking" this?
 
jymbee said:
Huh? How/why are scientists "faking" this?
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Follow the money. Scientists/universities get their research money from grants. To get grants they have to "prove" things like saccharin causes cancer, then when that money dries up they "prove" saccharin does not cause cancer. Like eggs kill you from cholesterol, no they don't. Daylight savings causes heart attacks, or does it? Let's do a study. And does everything cause cancer?

Every 10 years since 1972 I've been hearing global warming will kill us all in 10 years. Which has been generating lots of grant money for 54 years. Give me a break. I've been hearing that since 1972 and guess what? It didn't happen did it? Proving you can't fool all of the people all of the time but you can fool some of the people all of the time. Global warming didn't happen as predicted so the terminology is now climate change which will kill us all in 10 years. Having big snowstorms in New York in January or 100 degrees in Atlanta in July isn't climate change. When it snows 12" in Miami in July that might be climate change.

Eliminating fossil fuels and forcing EVs adoption was justified by climate change. Lots of money to be made by investing in solar and windmills. More grant money for alternative energy research. And EV adoption drives grant money for battery research. Several times per year a new battery technology is invented to make lithium batteries obsolete, but those technologies always disappear into the ether.

News agencies are like firemen starting fires. Real news is boring, fake news is exciting and controversy is where the ratings and money come from.
 
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