The Dark Side of Daylight Saving Time - What You Need to Know
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2023
- Uncover the surprising impact of Daylight Saving Time on mental health and body rhythms. Explore how the Sunshine Protection Act could change our mornings and learn practical tips for realigning your circadian rhythm with bright light therapy. Dive into the science behind social jet lag, mood disturbances, and more in this insightful video.
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•The research that could support a different view won’t even be done, unless the Sunshine Protection Act passes and is enacted for at least several years.
•I am surprised that you are using the evolutionary argument here. We live in modern times. You wouldn’t want an airline pilot, or even the driver in the next car, to have the reflexes or reactions of a cave man. Every day you rely on our evolved adaptations. We all do.
•You can’t make us all morning people by telling us that we are. I am not a flawed, damaged, lazy, or inadequate Morning Person. I am a Real Afternoon Person. And some people are Real Evening or Night People. We’re not Wrong, just Different. Please consider this.
•Your implication that we all should be morning people does not help those people who work swing shift, night shift, or mixed shifts either. We contribute to society too.
•Maybe the difficulties you observe are from a mismatch between societal practices and non-dominant ‘Other Shifters’. That’s why I wonder if research done during enactment of the Sunshine Protection Act might reveal things we don’t already know; it might even support a different conclusion.
•There is a Large cohort of people who would benefit by having sunlight after work, and later in the day. Most of us already know who we are. But you are not considering that the nation should have a chance to find out if the Sunshine Protection Act would benefit more people than we currently know.
•MDs are famously shift-abused during internship and residency. Is it possible that there is some projection going on here, trying to prove that being a Morning Person is the only acceptable norm?
•Ancient peoples observed the stars and equinoxes so thoroughly that they discovered that the equinoxes, in relation to the star field, move by about one degree every 72 years. 72 x 360 = 25,920 years, called a Great Year, the precession of the equinoxes. This understanding of seasons was not trivial, it helped them to time their agriculture, which in latitudes (and ice ages) with a short growing season, was crucial to their survival.
•These observations must have been very important to them, over many generations, of Night People Observing the Stars.
•Night People are not disabled latecomers unable to measure up to health or society’s needs. We are Differently-Abled people, who might have always been an integral part of humanity and society.
•What about the next time you or a loved one or someone you rely on needs police, fire department, or emergency medical care in the middle of the night? Do you want the driver or personnel to be a Morning Person then? Or would you be glad to have us at Our best, when the crisis arises?
•The correctness of your ‘research’ can’t possibly be verified or challenged, if the Sunshine Protection Act is never tried.
•No other study would ever be accepted if there weren’t at least two study groups, let alone no control group.
•E.g., one thing you might consider is: There are a large range of variations in light conditions according to latitude (between the North Pole and the South Pole), and time zone (there are 15 degrees of longitude within each time zone). Any study that fails to account for these is incomplete at best. What gets averaged away may be not only germane, but significant.
•Also, the morning crepuscular light starts quite a while before sunrise, so the dark morning hours you decry would not be wholly dark until as late as 8 AM (or sunrise), as you imply.
•I wish you would support the whole of this research, instead of trying to prevent it.
•Because maybe your justification Isn’t Justified. How much research could I gather against Fall-back if I had (another lifetime of) 68 years of Sunshine Protection Act to gather it?
•Imagine you had to live your whole life with Your body clock in prison. Maybe then you could have more understanding of another cohort that is not your own.
•Thank you for considering my ideas. I’m sure it is not fun to be challenged in your own forum.
•I have been very negatively impacted by your ideas in this video, my whole life.
•I wrote and rewrote this, trying to get most of the anger out of it, and keep it from being personal, and only partly succeeded. I apologize for that.
•But this is a very serious Subject: your viewpoint is not the only serious one.
•I have appreciated most of your videos very much, but this one I completely disagreed with.
Thanks for your well thought out dissenting opinion. I’m fine with you disagreeing with me. Most of my videos are based on or inspired by scientific research. No matter what the science says, there are always exceptions. My not speaking to the exceptions in this video is not intended to be a negative judgment against people whose body clocks are not aligned morning sunlight.
I certainly don’t believe that people who are night owls are lazy or disabled. I’m sorry that’s the message you got from this video.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, and pinning my comment.
•I was most concerned that your expertise would prevail, and that we would never get to try a valuable alternative, of DST year round.
•Even if the Sunshine Protection Act was later reversed, we could still learn a lot.
•My dad was a scientist, and he said, “Teach people how to think, not what to think.” That was my effort in my comment.
•I didn’t get to be a scientist, because instead, I had 4 TBIs (ages 1-27). Now at 68, perhaps my projection is some jealousy about that. (Lightning bug in a jar.) I apologize.
As for night owls being lazy and disabled, that is more of a cultural judgement that I have struggled with, not your message.
And I am disabled, so I’m probably sensitive about that.
Thank you for showing more grace than I did, and for letting this lightning bug out of the jar. 🙏🦋🌌
It’s all good Denise. No worries. Thanks for replying back. I’m sorry you’ve had such a rough time. 4 TBI’s - wow. I can see how the cultural messages can sound louder than the actual message. Things that hurt can hurt a long time…I wish you all the best ❤
@@Denise11Schultz Round the year full-time daylight saving is the only intelligent decision. Make sure your Congress person votes for that.
You diminish the strength of your argument by being long-winded and verbose
Arizona and Hawaii are onto something. The law was implemented for control I feel like because it’s just going against nature. I appreciate you Dr.Tracey ❤️ for spreading awareness and showing ways to cope with.
Knowledge and awareness is key. I also live in Canada where there is no daylight savings all year around. It is great.🙂
They say it was started for farmers back in the day which renders it almost useless now. Thankfully after this year they’re ending it
Being a natural night owl, I do prefer the sunlight more in the afternoon. BUT, as a type 1 diabetic, I don't care which time we stick with, I just want us to pick a time & stick with it all year round. It's crazy how an hour can throw off blood sugars & digestion for quite a while after switching.
True. Our bodies are so sensitive, and fragile, but also powerful and resilient. I agree with you - pick a time and stick with it! Will ya!! lol
I'm usually great with daylight savings in the Spring/Summer. We still get quite a bit of daylight throughout the day. But the fallback is so much worse for anyone with depression.
I completely agree. I don’t what to feel like it’s time for bed at 5:30pm when the sun goes down in Atlanta.
It’s a dumb idea. Just go with permanent daylight savings.
I suffer w clinical depression that is pretty severe along w a sleep disorder & I think anyone w a brain would say do not continue w daylight savings! STOP THAT AS I remember the year it began & it has always interfered w circadian rhythms. It is not natural. Also why did we do it in the first place? I heard one lady say to give our children more daylight so kids won't get hit by a car? She doesn't seem to understand daylight savings made it so that children are getting up with the sun walking to the bus or school in daylight if we fall back! Same for all workers & even the ones that are not employed. Daylight savings helps with only those with jobs such as farmers construction workers so bosses can keep them working more....etc as we know that is important but keeping our natural fall back that has the sun coming up so they start then like they always did & we were fine. Because of my depression I want to get up w the sun not be dark when I rise.
Daylight savings needs to stop & stay w the natural fall back times. And I'm a night owl & still fall back is fine.
@@sweetest247 it doesn’t matter whether it’s standard time or daylight savings, it’s the changing that is causing all the damage.
@sweetest247 I agree completely. People who have the leisure to sleep in shouldn't get to push back darkness at night.
My great uncle, born in 1903, clipped a political cartoon of kids at a dark, spring bus stop with miners' helmets. He was a railroad man and worked from dawn to done.
We don't want to change times, we want to *Stay* on *Daylight time*. Switching is hard. BUT it is dark at the time we have to get up in the winter regardless of season and morning light starting at 3:30am is useless in the summer. When the sun goes down at 4:30 in the afternoon it is VERY depressing.
Exactly!!
Nothing here for second and third shifters, and night owls. I can count the number of sunrises I've witnessed on two hands, and yet I go on. And what about those who live in chronically overcast places?
Also, studies have shown the teens and young adults naturally are awake later, and get up later.
Forcing them into the daylight paradigm is BAD.
I used to work a rotating schedule of two days (7:30-3:30) , two mids (11:30-07:30) ending with two eves (3:30-11:30) with 80 hours off. This included two double-back shifts (day-mid and mid-eve). It was havoc, and messed with my sleep patterns for years. Still today I suffer with sleep problems, but that is caused by some other problems. I think once someone gets accustomed to a regular shift (no matter the hours), then the body can adjust. My rotation was hell with double-backs and constantly changing hours.
One of the biggest arguments is school kids standing waiting for the bus in the dark. All the school has to do is change by an hour instead of every human being in the country needing to change. SPINELESS LAWMAKERS keep hanging on to this relic.
i actually find the opposite i feel more tired after we switch to standard time and as soon as we switch back to daylight savings i have more energy
Absolutely!
I have a different experience. I find myself going to bed earlier during DST, and use black out curtains, yet my sleep continues disrupted. I don’t get depressed due to darkness during the early or late evening hours; I just want consistency.
I used to love this change along with rainy days but now I am hating it! This year it has impacted me so much that I started having depression since time changed three weeks ago.
I don't care if standard time or daylight savings time is chosen as long as we PICK ONE and stop switching back and forth. I always warn family/friends/coworkers to expect me to be crabby for 6 weeks after the time switches in either direction. If people want to adjust their own personal schedules twice a year, I say go for it. But don't force the rest of us to go along. The government needs to STOP MESSING WITH MY SLEEP!
Just don’t change your clocks. I kept mine in daylight savings time and still go by that schedule. It works for me since I work for myself. I just always remember that if I have an appointment at 1:30 for example, it’s really at 2:30 on my clock.
@@blue-ck9ns unfortunately, I don't have that luxury as I work for a company that keeps track of our work schedules.
If you are interested in some evidence about not having this seasonal switching. In Mexico the president AMLO already removed the summer/winter time switching. He consulted with experts and they didn't find any good reason to keep changing the time. As my personal opinion there haven't been like terrible consequences for not changing the time here in Mexico, everyone uses electricity so nobody cares about daylight. But the future will tell if it affects more things like electricity bills or even more contamination, still for other countries where they don't have so much daylight time because of location or bad weather it could be a necessity obviously
I'm grateful to live in a place where there is no change all year around. But I have in the past lived in places that do change the time as well. I can see how challenging it would be.
@@blue-ck9nsfor those of us living in society that doesn’t really make sense 🤣
I live in Croatia, Europe and we also have daylight savings from the last Sunday in March till the last Sunday in October, I have a hard time waking up for the job then and constantly feel exhausted
I'm a natural night owl and actually do better with daylight savings time. I hate fall back because then it's always dark in winter and it really aggravates my SAD depression. It's also the switching itself that I have a lot of trouble with. I have ADHD and notice any kind of transition/change is incredibly difficult for me. Maybe I should move to Arizona or Hawaii...
Same!
That's really tough. Have you explored any avenues that were helpful to combat this? Also, it could be a good consideration to move. Is that an option for you?
I have SAD too and I would really prefer it if we stayed on DST all year. No more 4:30 PM darkness, please give me back an hour of sunlight after work so that I can do something fun and not feel like it’s bedtime. I can use a SAD lamp to give me sun in the morning since I’m at work and indoors anyways.
I hate daylight saving's time and I do notice I feel worse during it. I'm a night person, so I don't mind less 'daylight'. In my opinion, if you want more daylight, GET UP EARLIER. I'm always happier when we shift the time back to the normal time. I get my hour back. We need to follow Hawaii and Arizona. Also, I have very sensitive eyes so "bright lights" and the sun hurts my eyes and gives me headaches.
I get more depressed from early darkness in the afternoon. I prefer summer time where we have more daylight in the evening.
My biggest problem is my circadian rhythm. It takes me all summer to adjust and I'm tired all summer and spring, then it goes back in fall and I spend all winter doing the same thing.
I live in CA, and this year, I decided to leave my clock in Daylight savings time. I don’t work a regular job anyways (I make my own schedule), so I prefer to go by daylight savings time so that it stays light until about 6pm in the winter instead of 5pm. I always wake up about 15 minutes before sunrise, which it currently rises at about 7:40 (6:40 standard time) out here.
I adjust my sleep schedule as the year goes on, but much prefer Daylight Savings to Standard, solely because I don’t like it getting dark at 4:30 in the winter.
For the working class, I think the school/work schedule should be adjusted as the sunset/sunrise time changes throughout the year, instead of changing the clock for the whole country.
Lol, I did the opposite one year. I left one clock on Standard time. The result was darkness going to and from work during the winter; and the sky starting to get light at 3:30 a.m during the summer and being down by or before 8:00 p.m. That meant no enjoyment of sunlight year-round.
I did this for the first time this year and will never go back! It helped my mood so much!
Hey, something to try, but can be hell In appointments, family gatherings, etc. I am sure one can work around this, but it may take some planning.
I like daylight savings/summer time far better. I always struggle in the winter with all the evening darkness. Our society has a whole other issue that we set times for work and school that require people to get up in the dark. We need to stick with daylight savings time, and change society to not start in the middle of the night. This is why some schools are already mandating later start times.
Oh wow, I thought picking one time and sticking to it would be better than what we do now, regardless of whether it was standard or daylight savings time. This was illuminating (hehe, pun intended).
I so appreciate your mental health mission❤We must de-stigmatize addressing, acknowledging and educating about our brain 🧠 As a parent of three teens, I have worked to get our school system to begin to be more proactive in mental health awareness, I feel like I’m talking to a rock. How much more would make sense if parents would only learn about the teen brain and obviously their brains too.
Thanks for your hard work, keep your energy you're doing amazing 😊💙
I've been working with adolescents and their parents for awhile and I see the same thing. It is incredibly frustrating when you see services and parents as well not understanding their teen's brain. I worked as a psychiatric RN, supporting youth with concurrent disorders and actually started my own channel on RUclips to raise awareness. I will be making videos about the human Brain, it is interesting we're in an industry where we claim to treat the brain but people know very little about it. The education is just not there and it is critical to understanding ourselves and our kids and others.
Living in the Alaska with the constant daylight in the summer and dark winters wears on me. Daylight savings just adds to the madness.
Here in the UK we do this too instead of our being called Daylight Savings Time it's called British Summer Time (BST) when we put the clocks forward an hour on the spring and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), named after the observatory where time zones were originally measured from in London, England, the rest of the year. I don't know if this is more of a British thing, due to our latitude and our weather in the winter time, but I find my mental health would be much better served with the extra hour's daylight in the afternoon than in the morning, maybe because I get up at 8am to go to work so I'm getting the natural light when I wake up a lot of the time anyway.
That said I feel that In the mornings in winter time, a lot of the time because of the weather we have you don't get much daylight anyway and after my morning commute I'm as alert and productive as I am in the rest of the year so I'm not buying what you're saying here at all. I wish we didn't have to switch from getting that extra hour in the afternoon because I feel the benefit and wellbeing I get from that outweighs that which I don't seem to get disputing my daily pattern by artificially changing the clocks.
You are right that we humans or bodies have rhythms which change throughout the year, but our modern lifestyles, especially in latitudes, doesn't fit into the daylight hours the location we live in provides so we have to artificially provide light to live how we want to, or many times have to, live. I just feel my mental health is better having that extra hour in the evening than having it slightly better in the morning, when a lot of the time in you don't get much light anyway, I feel I'm less productive and less happy having to go home in the dark.
I think it varies depending on where you and how much the length of the day changes as here in summer it can be light at 4.30am and stay light until after 10pm. When the clocks go back it is getting dark at around 6.30pm and even after the clocks are put back, when you get into December and January you are often going to work in the dark anyway so what is the point? The decision here at least has nothing to do with circadian rhythms and more about decisions made when our economies were more agriculturally based.
Finally I think the last point that really sealed the deal was at the end of the video you plugged your store selling items to help you overcome the whole issue of daylight, or lack of, hours. N the end what we originally set our clocks at in the first place was an artificial human construct. I will believe we'd be better off, here in the UK at least, sticking to British Summer Time (Daylight Savings Time). My final point though is that the UK is a relatively small country without much of a range from North to South so for us to do this probably has less of an effect as it does in a country like the US which stretches from Maine in the north to Florida on the south and I imagine more people live a lot further south so the effects don't affect so many people there than it does here in the UK.
I tend to be depressed and unmotivated when we fall back with our clocks. I do better when the daylight is longer. It’s not just my mental health that’s stronger but my work productivity and motivation are high and off the charts when daylight is longer. I find myself cursing when it’s already getting dark at 4-430p because I have more work to do. When it gets dark no matter the time, I have zero motivation. If it’s getting dark at 4p, my productivity stalls. If it gets dark at 8p, my productivity keeps going til then. That might make a great video as well to address sometime. People that are only highly functional when the sun is out.
There was a time when the changing of the clocks didn’t exist and people seemed to function fine. The changing of the clocks I think didn’t happen til early 1900’s, so for centuries it was never a thing.
I’ve wanted the Philips sunrise lamp for so long but wouldn’t spend the money on myself. My daughter bought me one for my birthday in August. I still haven’t used it. I’m going to pull it out today.
As someone with advanced sleep phase disorder, I absolutely love DLST as it allows me to stay up later in the evenings without feeling so tired by 8mp.
I never understood the logic or purpose of daylight saving savings time. I can't imagine having to wake up earlier than usual every certain time of the year.
Now that you shared these problematic issues, it's even makes less sense to have it. I can't believe they actually want to pass laws to make daylight savings permanent without proper research on its efficacy
There is the theory it's only about control It global cost is horrible from missed meeting, overhead, and scheduling problems.
I maybe wrong, but I heard that daylight savings time was brought in during the First World War, so that workers and farmers could be out and about being productive for the war effort in the daylight. We just didn’t go back to “ordinary “ time once the world wars were over. I think we should get rid of daylight saving time, it was brought in for a certain purpose in a certain time, and since we are no longer in that time period and the purpose is long gone, we can get rid of it
The problem with Daylight Saving Time is many people have become addicted to this stupid thing from the war times is because they forced it on us. But originally nobody wanted it in the first place. And now we have this Big argument over weather we have permanent DST or permanent standard time because the dumb people have gotten admitted to it like Drugs.
This is why i use a sunlight alarm clock. It makes a difference, truly.
1,000%!!! *so* grateful discovered that concept as a teen! now use smart bulbs that not only have sunrise alarm features but can automagically adjust the "temparture" & brightness of all our lights throughout the day 💖
Two acquaintances of mine have died by suicide since we turned the clocks back on Nov 5. In both, their depression took a terrible turn after the time change. Do you see this with patients in your practice?
Edited to add: they were both males in their early 20's.
Wow .. That's horrible! I'm so sorry for your loss
@@souldancersbyjennifer Thank you for your sympathy. It's been a tough month.
My deepest sympathy.
😥
Julia, I lost someone too, there are a lot of factors to consider, warding off suicide, and in Canada, we're approaching the longest night of the year. It's also Christmas, which can, paradoxically be very sad for some people. Therefore, our church has a 'Blue Christmas' service so those people with SAD, and others to see that they're not alone, and even if they are, our hearts, and doors are open, and perhaps they can find community with us during the long evenings.
I agree, dr Tracey.The effect of Daylight savings time meant that I, as a high-school student, involved in AV club (audio/visual) was off to school in the dark early morning (I had keys to the school,) for readying Mr. Israel’s slide-show for gr. 13 history, and various light, and sound hookups for the Principal’s auditoriums, school plays, etc and the only light I had was incandescent, and that glowing button on the radio. This led to migrane headaches. The light therapy is good, if expensive, solution.
The older I get the harder it is to adjust to the time changes. Since I's retired I'm thinking of just keeping my clocks on regular time. Better to arrive an hour early for an appointment.
UC Berkeley has a Sleep and Mood Disorders Clinic. They trained me as a sleep therapist for people with mental health issues. Trans-C is the sleep therapy for people who struggle with sleep and mental health. CBT-i won't be powerful enough for a lot of these folks.
I have always been a "night owl" for 65 years. I know the DST has been much more conducive to my mental health/well being than the Fall Back time frame.
You should also consider our circadian rhythms or our propensities as well. I hate early darkness. I don't think I'm alone.
Still, love you!
I agree!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I absolutely loathe daylight savings time, and I disagree with everyone advocating for permanent DST! I live in Ottawa, Canada, and there is nothing we can do to make sunlight in the winter more abundant. Hearing the politicians hate on "fall back" without considering that the problem begins with "spring forward" AKA going into DST. It's also not like everyone has job or schooling that lines up with a 9-to-5 schedule! Morning shifts and graveyard shifts exist, as do night classes. We also have technology and tools to help us in the more drastic sunshine hour zones: blackout curtains and artificial lights are helpful. If people near the Arctic circle can live well without ridiculous, unnecessary clock changes, then why are we subjected to this across the globe!
Daylight savings time does not solve the problem of having limited sunlight. It actually makes the wintertime feel much worse because we go from 6pm sunsets to 5pm sunsets literally overnight. If it weren't for the clocks having gone back an hour in March, then November suddenly feeling much darker wouldn't be a problem; we would have had time to transition gradually to an earlier sunset in a more natural, progressive way.
With Standard Time, I get ZERO sunlight during the winter. It is dark going to work and coming home. With Daylight Savings, It would still be darker in the mornings, but lighter coming home. If we stayed on Standard time in the summer, the sun starts coming up by 3:30- 4 a.m., and it would be gone about 8 p.m. That leaves no time after work, commute, and dinner to actually see and enjoy some sunlight. With DST, we have time to get outdoors at the end of the day. The switching stinks, but I'll take darker in the mornings during the winter over no time for daylight enjoyment and rejuvenation in the summer.
I've hated DST since I was in high school about 20 years ago. I had to wake up at 5:45am, and during DST, it felt like 4:45am. This was before they moved up the start month from April to March. I wish we would just stay on standard time all year.
The fact 1hr disrupts yalls sleep is wild....my sleep schedule varies by 5 hrs day to day to begin with. 1hr is a drop in the bucket
My sleep varies a lot by 3 or 4 hours but I still feel more depressed when we switch time in the fall.
I think this is very dependent on your latitude, and I believe making this a country wide (tall?) decision can be a big misstake.
During Winter Time at my latitude it's pitch black when the office hour workday is over, and it feels like the whole day is over. People go into dormancy and stop being outside other than travel to and from work, cities goes quiet, many people gain weight and seasonal depression goes through the roof.
The short time between sunrise and work, in the beginning and end of winter, most people spend getting ready for work, commute, get their children off to school etc. In midwinter the sun rise after most people start work and sets before the end of the workday, so during that period it's just dark, DST or not.
Many discussions on this topic debate wether light in the morning is more beneficial than in the afternoon, but at northern latitudes that's an irrelevant question as long as the norm for work and school hours stay the same. The question should rather be "How do we ensure that most people get exposed to daylight, at all?"
Here you can have a little sunlightlight on your free time after work, to get the energy boost to take a walk, go to the gym, meet friends etc. Or you can get it on your way to work, which you were already going to anyway, and you're probably in a car/bus/train.
I really like your question. It is brilliant! I think any exposure to light, at anytime of the day tells our body that it is day time and regulates our circadian rhythm. It doesn't even have to be sunny per say, but just exposure to light. I also love the idea of being in nature, it connects us to our root - mother earth, father sky, and all our relations - the people, animals, and everything in existence. We are no an island, and even thought we connect through the internet, it is not the same as face to face. We need each other and we belong to the earth, it is our home. We need to nurture and take care of it and we need to feel the wind, and look at the plants, and the animals, and just breath fresh air, and that I think is also very healing. Thank you for the reminder!! I talk about holistic healing on my RUclips channel, movement is one of the things I promote as a simple lifestyle intervention. Our bodies were made to move, not sit around inside all day Infront of screens and just be in our own bubbles.
👏👏👏this was the comment I was looking for. At the end of the day people just NEED sunlight in general!
We should just switch to standard time. I’ve always thought this..
I used to wish that daylight savings would become permanent. Then I educated myself and realized we need the exact opposite. Abolish it and make standard time permanent.
We have daylight saving in New Zealand. It is the changing to and from that causes problems. It it became permanent we would all adapt and have a better use of time
In where I live, in winter there's sun for only about 5 hours a day, so most of people get up to work when it's still dark and finish working when it's already dark. To wake up with the sunrise you'd have to wait till 11am lol. That's why our government gave up on the idea of moving clocks back and forth - there's no point.
Daylight savings a is awful for me! I wish we’d leave the time alone. There is so little sunlight to begin with in the winter days. Getting dark at 430 is depressing!
Getting dark at 4:30 is standard time, not daylight savings. We are currently in standard time. Daylight savings time ended on November 5. I would prefer to stay in daylight savings time permanently, I actually just left my clocks in daylight savings time this year (it works for me since I don’t work a job/I make my own schedule)
6:30 Tip from a norwegian who have lived in north Norway for some years. You can also purchase a bright ceiling lamp where you can tell it to turn on and increase light strength, simulating a sunrise. Personally, i did not have i myself, but I knew people that did
Several years back, I thought I had SAD... though, unfortunately it turned out it was year-round.
Love your video!
I kinda play this by shifting my alarm clock "against" the DST changes, so I still basically wake up at "the same time". I also have a job that doesn't have strict hours---just as long as I do my 8 hours per day.
I still hate staring at the sun on my way into work and leaving work after dark during winter time LOL? I realize we'll still have that problem (at least at my latitude) with DST or not.
This is what I do as well and it surprised me it wasn't one of the solutions!
I am fine with this autumnal change. However, I absolutely hate the time change in the spring. The sudden shift to daylight is too much for me. It stays light till 11 pm here in the summer so there is no need for extra light.
Where do you live???
This is what I’ve been saying for years.
There is no use for Daylight Savings in modern day. The purpose it was originally designed to solve for is no longer a problem to modern society.
It’s literally a redundancy.
Thank you for spotlighting this health issue!🌅🔦
*Awesome video*
Standard Time is my favorite. I live fall back.
It also has a negative effect on farmers and farm animals
But Congress/Senate obviously doesn't think so.
It is clear that switching back and forth twice a year must confuse our bodies. What I don't get is how to tell whether day-light saving time or "normal" time would be intrinsically better. Hours are just numbers! If we want people to get up later, let's just start work, school etc. an hour later! Is there a law in the US that 9 to 5 jobs cannot start at 10, 11 or 12? (And if there were, these are not laws of Nature, but pure conventions that could be changed anytime).
I like the fall. Change more than the spring. In the spring it can be after 7 am and I still think it’s 4-5am and still wanna sleep. So much lazier in the spring
I lived in Chicago for a few years and in the winter the sun would go down at around 4pm. I hated being in the dark for most of the day. I think it also has to do Chicago being so close to the border line between Central Time Zone and Eastern Time Zone. Maybe if Chicago moved to Eastern Time Zone it would be better.
In northern cities, kids are walking back to home in darkness after school. Parents of limited time taking kids and dogs out to play.
Right on time for seasonal depression. I remember when Bush 2 changed the time zone schedule unnecessarily. It was so egotistical. I was well into my 30’s when it finally clicked I’m just not a morning person and that’s alright. I started working second shift and it was the best thing I never thought I needed. Oddly I’m not a night owl. But I digress. Great topic.
It wasn't egotistical. It gave people more time to get at least a little extra light in the evenings.
@@downtime86stars17 Yes, I thought he did it to save electricity.
Dr. Marks, I cannot express enough my appreciation for your videos and the knowledge you share for depression. I recently went through a bought of situational depression after I started a new job and was the first time I experienced said depression. It was a horrifying ordeal that lasted a year. Your shared knowledge helped me on my trail to recovery. I am happy to share that I am now three months off my antidepressants and have a new outlook on life and how appreciative I am of having a stable mental state. Once doesn’t realize how fragile and how important it is until you lose it. Thank you, Doctor, for all you do!!!!
That sounds really difficult. Yet, you found a way to move forward. What was most helpful in your journey back to health? Knowledge and awareness is key, and were there other interventions that were part of your recovery? Thank you for sharing.
I am using my Happy light right now.
Well done! There are a few very long scientific videos about light medicine - yours is the most helpful for human beings Thank you!
Thank you. I like keeping my videos succinct and to the point
I can't stand Daylight Savings Time. I agree with you! Morning Sun is more important.
You explained this better than every video I watched
Thank you for your work ❤❤❤
I live in Scotland and we have a huge difference in daylight between Winter and Summer. I know I have the unpopular opinion but I like the time changes, since otherwise we’d end up either having 9am sunrises in Winter or 3am ones in Summer…
Thanks Dr Marks -- I learn a lot from you.
Thank you for another amazing video Mrs. M.
Florida Sun this time of year is best therapy 😊
I find it very helpful that you go into further questions that arise through the information that you give us. Good luck with the store!
Thank you so much as always 😊😊
Get well!
I have always hated day light savings time. 🤨
This was super helpful, Dr. Tracy. Thanks!
Health is wealth, especially mental health. 🙂
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This was very helpful. Thank you!
I prefer this time of year (fall back) as it makes it much easier for me to wake up in the morning. But I don’t care which one we’re on, just wish we could keep it the same year round.
Yes. This changing back and forth throws me off for a few weeks after every time change.
I've hated the time change in the spring since I was in high school in the early and mid 2000s. Getting up at 5:45am on DST for half the school year felt like 4:45am.
Daylight saving time makes zero sense in an always online world with flexible work schedules.
I would prefer permanent standard time.
There really never is enough time after work in the evening to enjoy to justify the necessity to advance the clocks forward an hour. If we kept standard time all year, I wouldn't need to sleep in hour to make up for lost sleep, thus freeing up more leisure time for my Saturdays and Sundays
As a kid I barely noticed this, but the older I get the worse it gets.
I live in Arizona!yay!
Thank you Tracy you’re great you’re a blessing. Yeah I agree with you. It’s nice to have those evenings but daylight saving times needs to go for all the reason you stated, and there is other reasons a friend of mine used to talk about. She has all this data about more car, accidents and more all sorts of things that happened.. and I appreciate you putting out this store. I can’t wait to go look.. have a beautiful day everybody. And it sounds to me like there’s a lot of stuff going on in Atlanta.
On this video there has been a lot of good discourse, between everyone. I've enjoyed the differing thoughts, imputs and lifestyles, mentioned. kuddos Dr.Marks
Appreciate your overview and break down. Truly appreciate your presentation.
Thank you 😊👍🏻👍🏻
Every time daylight savings ends this time of year I start to get really down, really quick. The day's already over at 5PM and it just makes me really sad and has probably started to affect my mood. I'm a person who loves the night time, but I can't stand it
Same!
I recognize not everyone can do this, but my husband and I essentially didn’t change with this last time change. We have a baby and we just switched the schedule to move with the time change. It’s been great! I just find I don’t like how early the sun goes down starting this time of year, but there’s no clock change that will change how the sun works… we always have less sunshine in the winter.
It is funny, me and a friend of mine has recently been talking about this, so it was nice to watch this video.🙂
Living in Denmark for the last 17 years, I cherish a sunny day like no tomorrow!! My south American brain just CAN'T with all this darkness here 😢
Please consider some link between depression and the time changes. I posit many become more depressed or ineffectual after the Fall time change.
DST is great for the non-depressed, "normal" population who are "early to bed, early to rise."
I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this as well
Even though it takes a few days or so to adjust to the "spring forward " loss of an hour of nighttime sleep, I look forward to more evening daylight. It simply works better for my natural sleep pattern and rhythm.
I'm not a big fan of DST, especially in the Winter, in many places the sun won't come up until 9 AM. There is a certain amount of day and night hours each season, it's best not to screw with nature.
The response to the pinned comment!
How many years does it take to get to that level of "understanding" and compassion? Blessing to you!
One out of million
Woah. Lol. That went right over my head. I'm in South Africa and never been out of my country. I've heard a little about this but clearly not enough.
About 70 countries have some form of daylight saving time, but it varies from region to region. Much of Europe and North America, as well as parts of South America and Australasia, change their clocks. However, many countries in Africa and Asia situated around the equator do not change the time.
Not sure how this affects international travel by airplanes for example or trading.
For my country, we move the clocks back an hour just before winter sets in or it would be dark for much longer in the mornings, then we move them forward in the springtime as there the daylight hours increase.
Hey neighbor! I've lived in Marietta, GA since 2020. (Originally from MA)
Food for Thought
I will look into some white light, thanks for the info ma'am.
every october i fall apart for 2 months and lose everything i worked all year to obtain..
I hear you, October is a hard month for me as well. It would be a lot easier if we switched to permanent daylight savings time as we would have an extra hour of sunlight after work when we can actually enjoy it.
The time change is aweful, and affects me in s negative way every year. The politicians thinking daylight savings time should be made permanent have no idea how it relates directly to our natural circadian rhythms. They don't even understand how it would affect people and their productivity on a daily basis.
Daylight Savings Time has started to affect me in the last 5-6 years or so. I never really liked it, but lately found it to be disruptive with sleep patterns
*more "bright" ideas* 💡 progressive light alarms, tunable lights, attention to light placement throughout the day & temperature filters for screens had a major impact on my family's life
*progressive light alarms* have a variety of names & increased options since i started using them as a teen but the basic idea is faking a sunrise by lights gradually increasing before you need to wake up 🌅
you can get lamps specifically made for this (phillips has done research & offered products for ages) but most smart bulbs also offer a similar feature - either way recommend ones that are tunable
*tunable lights* also have a wide variety of offerings where the bulb can change from "cooler"/bluer "daylight" hues to "warmer"/oranger "relaxing" ones which mimic natural light 🌇
*light placement* can further help create a more natural light cycle by immatating the sun. we start & end the day with lamps closer to the ground, shutting off overhead lights by early evening
*tempature filters* make screens more tunable & often can either be set up for automatic schedules or sync to your local sunrise/sunset
I have a very hard time adjusting to the time change.
Come late September and October I’m very down and depressed i love summer and am outside all the time but these people who LOVE fall oh brother 🤦🏻♀️ it’s hate it
I agree!! September October, November are my least favourite months, I have SAD and I dread the time change to Standard time every year. I’m already starting to feel like the days are shorter and it’s getting darker earlier, and earlier, and I feel terrible, and then we switch the time and it makes it even worse.
Having more light later in the day helps me mentally rather than hurt
Same here!
@@camilleferland9773 Can’t wait for all the complaining to start up again! As if anyone sleeps the exact same amount of time each night and wakes at the exact same moment 🤮
Ok so how can I fix falling asleep at 430pm...I totally shut down?
Please get afternoon bright sun exposure, and take off those sunglasses in the afternoons. Get up and get active after lunch. Turn on stimulating music. Avoid a large meal in the afternoon. And see if your meds are sedating you.
I prefer more evening sun, the sun going down at 4pm is depressing af
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I love your videos, but I didn't need a PhD to know I don't like it being daylight out at 9:00 p.m. when I'm trying to go to bed. Of course now that I have a professional opinion to affirm I supposed I feel better.
In Washington it's dark by 4:30 at 5 its pitch black 😢
Yeah, 😢 sunshine protection act for the win!