In 1957, Rockabilly Bob Ehret singer repeated: “We have to stop the clock, baby; to spend more time with you”, and in a Senate Committee of the Senate, the legislators on both sides of the corridor strongly considered the benefits of doing so.
President Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said that the savings of daylight was based on efforts in good faith to reduce energy consumption, but instead has led to an increase in car accidents in the dark, the problems of the workplace and the objections of the agricultural sector that depends on early sunlight.
“We are adjusting our watches … emerging forward and going back in autumn. For many Americans, this biannual ritual is a minor inconvenience … but when we observe more closely the implications of changing watches, its impact on our economy, our health and our daily life, we can see that this practice is more than a discomfort,” Cruz said.
“The idea was simple. Less hours of darkness meant less electricity consumption for lighting and heating.”
However, unlike the early 1900s, when the economy of the United States depended a lot on energy consumption linked to the hours of the day, today’s effects of sunrise and sunset schedules are “the minimis,” he said.
Cruz, together with the Massachusetts neurology doctor, Dr. Karin Johnson, talked about health concerns associated with the change of time twice a year and with the permanence of summer savings time (DST), compared to the standard time.
“The investigation has shown that the change abruptly over time, especially the spring transition when we lose an hour or sleep,” Cruz said, while Johnson talked about the effects on the circadian rhythm of people, the vascular system and sleep deprivation.
The panel also organized an official of the National Association of Owners of the Golf Health, since he and other legislators talked about the increase in the income of Tee’s times in the afternoon and other tourist activities only possible hours of daylight.
On the democratic side, Senator Lisa Blunt-Rochester of Delaware agreed that it was time to consider a “permanent moment for our country.”
She noticed a bill from then on. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., To abolish the stagnant dst in the house.
“This body [then] I looked harder at how changes in time work by state, “he said.
“What works in my native state of Delaware may not work in the state of Washington, but I know I speak for many Americans when I say it’s time. It’s time to solve this.”
The witnesses of the audience indicated that, in fact, they are the southern states such as Florida and Texas, where the negative effects of permanent summer savings time would be felt more.
Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., Talked about his work by changing the summer schedule twice to help calm some of the problems that were raised each time, including a better guarantee of trick or treatment occurs in the worst case when dusk.
Markey joked that decades in this issue earned him the nickname “The Sun King.”
“We need to stop the clock,” said Blunt-Rochester. “We know that changing the clock interrupts sleep, which can lead to negative health results. Several studies have noticed that problems with mood increase hospital income and only heart attacks and strokes.”
The founder of the watch movement, Scott Yates, testified about the defective history of the DST, once indicating during the energy crisis of the 1970s that the Nixon administration letter made permanent DST.
Nixon signed the law in December 1973 while being wrapped in Watergate, but the first week of the following year – January 6, 1974.
“So you imagine, the worst Monday of the year is already after the holidays in which you have to return to school and everything, so that they sleep an extra stolen hour just before that. You can understand why it was so unpopular and why it was repealed,” said Yates, pointing out that months later, he resigned.
The theft for the “plumbers” at the Watergate hotel also occurred greatly during night hours.
“Then, perhaps, if we had more light of the day, Watergate theft does not happen,” Cruz joked in response.
“And the story would be different.”
