End Daylight Savings Time

Why this is important

* DST is no longer an effective energy saving method; evidence now suggests it wastes energy; DST is one more distraction from real energy solutions that are needed

* The Monday following every springtime adjustment has more car accidents than on any other day of the year; the Sunday following every springtime adjustment results in a spike in heart attacks

* It disrupts sleep patterns, particularly for young children and their parents
* Generally, it creates disruption and annoyance far beyond its worth
* This petition may have broad popular appeal, and will help to introduce AVAAZ (and the far more important issues presented here) to new audiences.

Posted March 9, 2013

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Created by
Joel P. Canada

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Federal Governments (US, Canada, etc.)

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Daylight Savings Time (DST) no longer saves energy. Recent studies indicate that it may now be costing us energy. DST is also a distraction from far more real and effective energy saving solutions that need our attention.

DST disrupts sleep patterns; all mothers and fathers of young children know this very well. Every spring, it causes a spike in car accidents on the Monday immediately following the time adjustment. It also causes an immediate spike in heart attacks.

For something that no longer has any true benefit, the disruption, annoyance, mistakes and accidents, and even pain that it causes are now greater than any benefit it may have had in the former century.

"It's about time" for it to come to an end.

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