Daylight Saving Time: Experts Call for Stop Turning Back Clocks

The expert called for the end of daylight savings time, saying that turning back the clock twice a year “doesn’t make sense anymore”.

Conversation with 3AW Ride with Tom Elliottchronobiologist and Monash University assistant professor Sean Kane said the time shift could have a negative impact on your health.

“Losing this hour is pretty bad, but it’s not the only thing that’s bad. Being in the summer light, all the time you are there, is also a little bad for you, because everything is out of sync with the light-dark cycle, ”he said in the radio program.

“The transitions are absolutely annoying, but if you go daylight saving time all the time, at some times of the year you will wake up long before sunrise.

“Your body is screaming, ‘Go back to bed.’ It’s not right, it’s very unhealthy.”

The professor said that the reason for daylight saving time – as a way to save energy – “doesn’t make sense anymore.”

“There have been studies looking at whether we get any energy savings from this,” he said.

“And that’s not the point, either there are no savings, or maybe even a little worse.

“We have to give it up.”

The expert added that saving daylight increases the risk of heart attacks.

“Losing an hour of sleep, moving the clock forward and having to get up an hour earlier increase the risk of car accidents and heart attacks,” he said.

This is not the first time Professor Kane has outlined dangers of daylight saving time.

Last year, a chronobiologist explained to news.com.au. I have news for you podcast about being chronically ill, mental health often gets worse when clocks are turned over.

He said it was due to a change in the body’s circadian rhythms, which are your body’s natural sleep cycle.

“It’s pretty obvious to everyone why it’s bad if it’s been used for a year,” he said.

“First, you will see more disease, more chronic disease, more sleep problems, more mental health problems where it is being used. It’s like changing time zones every day.

Daylight saving time was first introduced in Australia as a temporary measure during the First and Second World Wars.

This practice was seen as a way to conserve energy and extend the working day during times of war.

Tasmania became the first Australian state to make the move permanent in 1967.

By the early 1970s, Victoria, New South Wales, ACT, and South Australia switched to daylight saving time.

Queensland and Western Australia are the only states that do not apply daylight saving time.

Originally published as ‘It doesn’t make sense’: expert calls for abolition of daylight saving time