As We Return to Natural Time and Health,
Our Melanination - Recognizes
Permanent Standard Time
For our Health, Culture, and Sovereignty!
For most of human history, people have awakened, worked, and slept according to the sun, and for good reason: Light is a powerful cue for the regulation of the body’s internal circadian rhythm, and the 3rd Eye (pineal gland) regulation of Serotonin and Melatonin hormones. Permanent Standard Time provides the MOST benefit for our health, safety, schoolchildren, environment, economy, and liberty.
We must demand that our US Political Government Representatives actually represent the people and not corporations and capitalist interests. The US must overturn Daylight Saving Time and return to PERMANENT STANDARD TIME!
US Scrooge Time -Daylight Saving Time is a marketing manipulation of our minds to confuse and control our freedom of choice and decisions. Only corporations and businesses favor this confusion. DST Disrupts our Health and Wellness while demanding that we spend and consume more resources.
Melanin-rich people are the oldest people on the planet. Melanite people from the Afrikan diaspora were called KMT. KMT means PEOPLE OF THE SUN! This is the oldest ancient reference from the oldest people known now as the Twa/Khoisan of central Afrika. KMT has been carved into the stones of pyramids in the east and central Afrikan regions. KMT people respond to the sun as they recognize the relationship between the smallest Micro universe to the macro universe. Time in First Nations cultures is cyclical, measured by counting moon phases and Astrological Stars and noticing changes in the seasons on the Earth. We are Solar- Soulful People!
We Will/ Must not be controlled through Daylight Saving Time to compromise our healthy immune system, and then to be directed into being a permanent underclass of wage slaves and consumer-based Kkorpratakrazy in the United States! We must stand to speak on behalf of our own interests in our children's Health, welfare, and Safety.
END DST (Daylight Saving Time)
We are not sheeple
DST IS NEO-ENSLAVEMENT!
WE MUST STAND UP TO RETURN THE NOONDAY SUN TO SHINE STRAIGHT UP IN THE SKY EVERY DAY! WE MUST RE-ESTABLISH PERMANENT STANDARD TIME!
The lifestyles of our ancestors were not determined by a clock. The people once moved according to the seasons and the stars. Daylight was taken advantage of in terms of health benefits in melanin exposure to the sun, and the gathering of food and fuel. I believe our ancestors used the time they had wisely because they did not enjoy all the energy-consuming conveniences that we now have. They had to consume their own energy to make sure the lives of their families continued. Yet Our Ancient Ancestors were the first to invent the Sun dial, water clocks, and the use of Astronomical charts to course the oceans and the planet.
Arizona and Hawaii -- and the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands STILL observe permanent standard time.
When Standard Time was Invented
Knowing the time in different places is not an issue today, but long ago it was a complex matter. Indigenous Communities used their own solar time, When 12 miles was considered a long trip, the time difference wasn't much of a problem. No one went far in 12 hours. The advent of railways made the variety of municipal times a major aggravation for travelers who often missed connections and had to wait hours for the next train. Safety was an issue too; it was most undesirable to have two trains using two-time references going in opposite directions on the same tracks at the same time.
At noon on November 18, 1883, North American railway systems adopted a standardized system of keeping time that used hour-wide time zones. It took many years, but eventually, people around the world began using the same timekeeping system.
A brief history of daylight saving time
Congress institutionalized daylight saving time during World War then World War II, and once again during the "Energy Crisis" of the early 1970s. The idea was that having extra light later into the afternoon would save energy by decreasing the need for electric lighting. This idea has since been proved largely inaccurate, as heating needs may increase in the morning in the winter, Under Permanent Daylight savings time, while air conditioning needs also increases in the late afternoon in the summer. After WWII Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966. This law set the nationwide dates of daylight saving time from the last Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October.
In 2007, Congress amended the Uniform Time Act to expand daylight saving time from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, dates that remain in effect today.
"Sovereignty means being able to select which issues we want to align ourselves with in order for our group to overcome the wealth gap." Sasteh Meter
As Indigo KRSTs -people living in harmony with Nature and a more natural way of life and health, we have the power to promote the healing of our communities and nation.
Why is Daylight Saving Time Hazardous To Our Health?
- Daylight saving time goes against your body’s circadian rhythm that helps regulate your sleep-wake cycle, according to a growing body of research. Missing sleep lowers the immune system and produces higher levels of stress hormones: cortisol, insulin, and adrenaline. Researchers have found that any time change has been associated with sleep disruption, mood disturbances, Strokes, heart attacks, and suicide. A prolonged misalignment of circadian rhythm is associated with an increased risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and depression
- Moving the clock an hour forward can pose serious health risks, such as stroke and heart attack, especially during the week following the time change. During the week after the shift to DST, research shows an associated rise in Cardiovascular disease, with a 24% higher risk of heart attacks. Injuries, including a 6% spike in fatal car accidents. Stroke rate, which increases by 8%. This has occurred every spring since the determination of DST.
- Depending on their own internal clocks and Immune system, some people are more vulnerable to time change-related issues than others. So more Colds, Flu, and viruses occur.
- DST contributes to negative effects on Mental health. Memory loss, Irritability, and Depression
- When our internal clocks are offset from the solar day-night cycle by even one hour we develop what sleep experts call “social jet lag.” Studies have shown social jet lag increases the risk of metabolic disorders such as diabetes, raises the risk of heart disease and stroke, worsens mood disorders such as depression, affects the digestive and endocrine systems, and shortens our sleep duration. It can even reduce life expectancy.
- Inside the brain’s hypothalamus is a “master” called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which uses hormonal and chemical signals to sync time throughout the body. Our internal clocks regulate processes including liver function, the immune system, and our body’s physiology, which means any disruption can have significant effects.
- In a 2015 study published in Sleep Medicine, researchers compared the rate of strokes during the week after daylight saving to the rate 2 weeks before or 2 weeks after. They found the rate was 8% higher the first 2 days after the shift, and people with cancer were 25% more likely to have a stroke than during other times of year. People over 65 were 20% more likely. A 2019 report found a higher risk of heart attacks after both time changes, but particularly during daylight saving. Interruptions to the circadian rhythm can also impair focus and judgment. A 2020 study found fatal traffic accidents increased by 6% in the United States during daylight saving time.
- A 2003 study found getting one hour less sleep for two weeks had the same effect on thinking and motor skills as going without sleep for two full nights. Reducing sleep by 90 minutes from the recommended 7 to 8 hours for adults altered the DNA of immune cells and boosted inflammation, a key cause of chronic disease, according to another study.
- Making the time change permanent would make the chronic effects of any sleep loss more severe, not only “because we have to go to work an hour earlier for an additional 5 months every year but also because body clocks are usually later in winter than in summer with reference to the sun clock,” according to a statement from the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms.
- “The combination of DST and winter would therefore make the differences between body clocks and the social clock even worse and would negatively affect our health even more,” the authors concluded.
Can Earth’s weak geomagnetic field impact our neural signals?
Now here’s the good news! A 2019 scientific study found evidence of humans having working magnetic sensors that send signals to the brain.
Bees, turtles, fish, birds, and some mammals (whales, bats, cows) use their magnetic sense as homing devices and for navigation, in conjunction with cues like sight, smell, and hearing. Thus far, science was looking for uniquely human behavioral responses to magnetic fields, but when the parameters of the study were changed to whether humans can sense the magnetic field, we obtained the evidence we were looking for: there is a sensory ability in our subconscious brain to detect magnetic signals!
Indeed, humans can sense the earth’s magnetic field. Scientifically, there is so much unexplored about the world, and I’m awed by the fact that we don’t know what we don’t know.
Nearly two dozen physicians and researchers from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine are calling for an end to daylight saving time, the period of time from March through October when clocks “spring forward.” So, the members of the Academy’s 2019-2020 Public Safety Committee and Board of Directors—are calling for permanent standard time. This statement has been endorsed by 20 associations, including the World Sleep Society.
The statement authors argue that standard time is more in line with the circadian rhythm, the body’s internal clock that helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle.
“We all have an internal clock, and our body depends on its functioning to work normally,” lead author Muhammad Adeel Rishi, MD. Rishi is a pulmonology, sleep medicine, and critical care specialist at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
“That internal clock is very closely connected to the photoperiod or the sun cycle — how much light exposure we get, and it changes throughout the year [as Earth rotates around the Sun]. Those connections have been there for a very long time, and any artificial constructions cause health risks. Daylight saving time is an artificial construct, and we’re beginning to understand how it’s been impacting our health.”
— Muhammad Adeel Rishi, MD
Summary: Standard Time as we know it is a relatively recent construct.
- Daylight saving time goes against your body’s circadian rhythm that helps regulate your sleep-wake cycle, according to a growing body of research.
- Moving the clock an hour forward can pose serious health risks, such as stroke and heart attack, especially in the week following the time change.
- Depending on their own internal clocks, some people are more vulnerable to time change-related issues than others.
Those long summer evenings are artificial and are not good for your health, according to a new statement published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
Daylight saving time interferes with the natural seasonal adjustment of the human clock because of both morning darkness and evening light, the authors write.
“The acute alterations in timing due to transitions to and from DST contribute to misalignment between the circadian biological clock and the light/dark cycle (or photoperiod), resulting in not only acute personal disruptions but significant public health and safety risks,” the authors write.
In other words, by adjusting the light/dark cycle, DST is interfering with the body’s natural sleep and wake cycle—and it’s putting their health at risk.
“[Our circadian rhythm] schedules everything from your mood to the hormones that are secreted in the body to when you get sleepy and when you wake up,” Rishi says.
“The system evolved over millennia where our internal clock got closely connected to when the sun goes up and when the sun goes down. Any destruction of that connection causes health effects.”
The Science of Circadian Rhythms and Their Impact on Sleep
Health Risks Associated with Time Change
The switch from standard to daylight saving time has been associated with increases in a number of acute health risks on the body, including:1
Cardiovascular morbidity
Myocardial infarction
Stroke
Hospital admissions (due to the occurrence of acute atrial fibrillation)
“The acute [changes] take about a week, but there’s emerging evidence that the body might not completely adjust to change for the duration of while people are on daylight saving time,” Rishi says, adding additional research is needed to study long-term consequences of time change.
Researchers have found that any time change has been associated with sleep disruption, mood disturbances, and suicide. A prolonged misalignment of circadian rhythm is associated with an increased risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and depression, the authors write.
Rishi expresses concern over the misalignment because the circadian rhythm has been repeatedly strained over the last century with the advent of electricity, televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, and other distractions that allow people to stay up later and interfere with the body’s natural sleep process.
“That pressure has never been more intense on your circadian biology. You have that connection that’s already severely stressed and then in March, boom, you put another hour on it,” he says. “You have more accidents, more myocardial infarctions, as more evidence of people going to the ER is recorded. Another paper published at the AASM meeting showed increased medical mistakes.”
Still, Rishi says not everyone will be affected to the same degree.
"Some people are certainly more vulnerable than others," he says. "A good example would be a night owl—a person whose internal clock is naturally delayed—who has to get up early every day to go to work. Once daylight saving time hits, this person, who was already working against their natural circadian rhythm, is put under extra strain and is more likely to have problems."
What This Means For You
It’s important to recognize how time, and seasonal time changes, affect your body. While you can’t escape the clock, you can pay closer attention to what your body needs to maintain a healthy sleep-wake cycle.
History of Time Change
Many people likely don’t question the seasonal time change, and there’s a common misconception about daylight saving time: that the extra hour of daylight was for farmers, a carryover from agrarian society still practiced in modern life. But when the legislation was introduced in the 20th century, many farmers protested the time change because it meant doing more of their morning work in the dark.
During World War I, in an effort to conserve fuel to produce electricity, Germany and Austria adopted daylight saving time. Many other European countries followed suit. The United States adopted the practice as part of the Standard Time Act of 1918, which also established time zones. The adoption of daylight saving time varied following the end of World War II.
In the United States, daylight saving time was made law as part of the Advancement of Time or Changeover Dates Act of 1973. Congress extended the duration of DST through the Energy Policy Act of 2005. It is observed starting at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and ending at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November.
A Call for Change
Daylight saving time continues to be observed, largely by countries in North America and Europe.
But in March 2019, the European Union voted to end the mandatory switch to daylight saving time by 2021. That vote serves as a basis for discussions with European Union countries to determine a final law.
In the United States, federal law requires adherence to daylight saving time, but states can be granted approval to opt-out. Hawaii and parts of Arizona are exempt from daylight saving time along with territories Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. Several legislators at the state and federal levels have introduced legislation to eliminate spring and fall time changes, either for the permanent adoption of daylight saving or standard time.
In July, an American Association of Sleep Medicine survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults found that 63% support the elimination of seasonal time changes in favor of a national, fixed, year-round time, and 11% oppose it.3
“I think a lot of people don’t like seasonal time switches because in terms of their daily life, people feel it,” Rishi says.
How Does Daylight Saving Time Affect Health?
Changing between standard time and daylight saving time twice a year disrupts more than just sleep, experts say. They describe other health effects and explain which time might be best and why.
In less than a month, on Sunday, November 6, most households in the United States will turn their clocks back an hour as part of the twice-yearly toggling between daylight saving time and standard time. The ritual of “springing forward” in March and “falling back” in November is considered an inconvenience by many Americans. In fact, 64 percent of them would like to eliminate these biannual disruptions, according to a March 2022 poll by YouGov, an international market research and data analytics company based in the United Kingdom.
There are reasons the US Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act. Proponents say that extra daylight in the evening cuts down on car accidents and crime, and increases opportunities for commerce and recreation, as people prefer to shop and exercise during daylight hours.
However, research has shown both heart attacks and fatal car accidents increase after the clock falls forward in the spring. Children also end up going to school in the morning while it is still dark – with disastrous consequences.
When President Richard Nixon signed a permanent Daylight Saving Time into law in January 1974, it was a popular move. But by the end of the month, Florida’s governor had called for the law’s repeal after eight schoolchildren were hit by cars in the dark. Schools across the country delayed start times until the sun came up.
By summer, public approval had plummeted, and in early October Congress voted to switch back to standard time.
That may be why the United States Senate thought it was responding to popular opinion when it unanimously approved last March the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which would abolish these changes and set clocks permanently to daylight saving time.
WE MUST NOT LET OUR CHILDREN BECOME MARTYRS AGAIN!
The problem, according to neurologists and sleep specialists, is that our bodies' natural clocks are out of sync with daylight saving time. It denies us the morning light we need to wake up and delays the cues of darkness that tell us we need to rest, says Logan D. Schneider, MD, a sleep neurologist at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center in Redwood City, CA. Daylight saving time also increases the gap between our biological clocks and our social clocks.
Our internal clocks optimize various bodily functions throughout the 24-hour day, including digestion, hormone secretion, and the sleep-wake cycle, says Dr. Schneider. Light is one of the strongest drivers of these internal clocks; greater exposure to light in the morning and less exposure in the evening support synchronization of our bodies' functions. During standard time, the sun is directly overhead around noon in most places, which best matches our biological sleep-wake cycle.
Reducing exposure to morning light and increasing it during the evening, as happens during daylight saving time, has been shown to cause sleep deprivation, which can trigger inflammation and activation of genes associated with different cancers, says neurologist Beth Ann Malow, MD, FAAN, director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Division of Sleep Medicine in Nashville. In addition, the misalignment of our natural circadian rhythms can contribute to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, she says.
Several studies bear this out. A 2019 review in the Journal of Clinical Medicine found that the risk of heart attacks increased “modestly but significantly” after the transition to daylight saving time. A paper published in PLOS Computational Biology in 2020 concluded that the shift to daylight saving time was associated with elevated risks of cardiovascular disease, mental and behavioral problems, and immune-related disorders.
Even slight misalignments between the body clock and the social clock can have serious health consequences. In an article published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention in 2017, researchers found health disparities within time zones: People who live in the westernmost parts of a time zone, where sunrise and sunset occur minutes later, experience more health problems and shorter lives on average than their counterparts who live on the time zone's eastern edge. The authors stated that “circadian disruption is a probable human carcinogen.”
Based on these studies and other evidence, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) strongly agrees that daylight saving time should be eliminated. In a 2020 position statement, the organization called for the adoption of permanent standard time because it “aligns best with human circadian biology” and protects the health and safety of Americans. The statement was endorsed by more than 20 medical, scientific, and civic organizations.
Permanent daylight saving time would push winter sunrises in some areas of the country such as Atlanta and Minneapolis to as late as 9 a.m., after the start of the average school day, affecting students' routine, says Dr. Malow, who testified on the subject in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in March 2020.
Nearly 30 years later, in December 1973, President Richard Nixon signed a bill launching a two-year trial period of permanent daylight saving time. Before the initiative began, almost 80 percent of Americans supported the idea of an extra hour of afternoon light, according to newspaper reports at that time.
What they didn't consider until it went into effect is that the extra hour of afternoon light resulted in an additional hour of morning darkness. Some schoolchildren left their homes when the sky was “jet black” and had to carry flashlights, according to a report in the Washington Post. Just weeks into the change, eight children in Florida were killed in traffic accidents linked to sleep-deprived drivers negotiating dark morning roads. The tragedies made national news and prompted the state's governor to ask Congress to cancel the trial. Elected leaders in other states also started having second thoughts.
The idea that a permanent time change would save energy did not prove true. In Chicago, a spokesperson for Commonwealth Edison Company said the time change had saved “less than one-tenth of 1 percent in electricity. Much more energy has been saved by voluntary conservation.” A mother in Texas noted that while she might no longer need to turn her lights on in the afternoon, she was now being forced to turn them on earlier in the morning. “If all the lights are on when my children get ready for school, how much energy is being saved?”
Support for the time change plummeted; only 40 percent of Americans were still in favor two months after implementation. In October 1974, President Gerald Ford signed legislation ending the trial period.
Pro Daylight Saving Time
The current push to make daylight saving time permanent is supported by about half of US Citizens, says Karen Gamble, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurobiology at the University of Alabama's Heersink School of Medicine in Birmingham. But that support may be because of the emotional attachment to the time of year with which it's associated. “Daylight saving time is always in the summer, and we think of barbecues, picnics, evening get-togethers, and baseball. You might think if we have daylight saving time year-round, we're going to have those activities year-round, but we're not,” Dr. Gamble says. “No matter what you do, the days are short in winter and it's cold, and changing the clocks won't make the days longer or change reality.”
Since 2015, about 30 states have passed legislation that would end the twice-yearly clock adjustments and make daylight saving time permanent immediately if Congress votes to change the law.
In general, a permanent switch to daylight saving time is supported by chambers of commerce, the travel industry, retail stores and gas stations, and recreation-based businesses, including golf courses and theme parks. All believe an extra hour of sunlight in the evening will make them more profitable.
“Businesses think they will do better with people being out later, and some will do better, but sleep loss and sleep disruption affect the productivity and safety of workers,” says Dr. Johnson. On average, people lose about 19 minutes of sleep every night because of the extra hour of daylight during daylight saving time, resulting in a significant loss of productivity, according to a 2019 study in the Journal of Health Economics.
Workers who start before 7 a.m. typically lose even more sleep—as much as 36 minutes. “Later sunlight exposure and lack of sunlight earlier make it harder to fall asleep on time, and people still have to wake up for work or school earlier than their bodies want to, leading to chronic sleep loss,” says Dr. Johnson. Especially susceptible groups include teenagers, night owls, and people who start work or school before sunrise. “These are the people we're harming [the most],” she says. “Instituting permanent daylight saving time may very well increase health disparities.”
*For those with neurologic disorders, the short- and long-term impact of permanent daylight saving time will be similarly negative, says Dr. Johnson. “The underlying brain dysfunction will likely exacerbate the cognitive and memory effects of sleep and circadian rhythm disruption,” she says. Dr. Malow says her patients with narcolepsy and autism have told her that daylight saving time intensifies their underlying conditions, but there are no hard data corroborating that.
*Studies on the negative effects of daylight saving time have focused on the general population, but the disruption of circadian rhythms could affect people whose rhythms are already dysfunctional, such as those with Alzheimer's disease, or conditions sensitive to circadian patterns, such as migraine and epilepsy. A small study in Headaches in 2018 found a link between circadian misalignment and delayed sleep and more frequent and severe migraine attacks.
Some doctors have argued in support of permanent standard saving time because they believe it will help those who have a seasonal affective disorder, so permanent standard time will make a positive difference, Dr. Johnson says."Sleep deprivation outweighs Daylight savings, and morning light treats mood disorders more effectively,” she says, citing multiple studies that support that conclusion, including one published in Biological Rhythm Research in 2017 that looked at seven years of sleep timing in children and adolescents and noted increased social jet lag and mood problems when clocks were pushed ahead one hour. “It's not just a simple calculus based purely on light. There are so many factors that go into this.”
Status of Legislation
The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 is now with the House of Representatives. (The law would not apply to Arizona and Hawaii, which instituted standard time year-round in the 1960s.) While supporters had hoped the issue would be settled this year so President Joseph Biden could sign the law and make daylight saving time permanent beginning in November 2023, that now seems unlikely. In late July, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), who oversees time-change policies as chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told The Hill that the country faces more pressing issues, and the debate would be set aside for now.
Pallone said that while many lawmakers believe the twice-annual clock adjustments should end, they can't agree on which clock to make permanent. Divisions, he says, were falling not along partisan lines but based on location, with lawmakers in tourism areas favoring daylight saving time to keep visitors out later, while more rural lawmakers say farm communities prefer standard time.
While it's unknown what the House will decide, supporters of standard time are heartened that, unlike the Senate, the House isn't rushing to a vote. The Sunshine Protection Act had bipartisan support, but it passed with no debate, and some senators later said they hadn't realized the bill was up for a vote. When one of the bill's sponsors, Republican senator Marco Rubio, whose home state of Florida passed permanent daylight saving time, stood on the Senate floor on March 15 and asked for “unanimous consent,” no one objected, perhaps because not everyone was there. Some lawmakers later said they weren't familiar with the bill before it passed.
“Permanent daylight saving time is the worst option,” says Raman Malhotra, MD, FAAN, professor of neurology at Washington University in St. Louis and past president of the AASM. “Permanent standard time is more natural for our bodies and the best option for our health.”
Again the lifestyles of our ancestors were not determined by a clock. The people once moved according to the seasons and the stars. Daylight was taken advantage of in terms of gathering food and fuel. I believe our ancestors used the time they had wisely because they did not enjoy all the energy-consuming conveniences that we now have. They had to consume their own energy to make sure the lives of their families continued.
Another illusion I believe we get caught up in is the concept of “CP Time (Colored People's Time.) Some people use this phrase in a derogatory manner. For instance, when an event or person is running late people might say they are on CP time. To me, CP time is when something happens according to the spirit or when the universe has prepared for it to take place.
For example, we don’t see ceremonies running on a clock or daylight saving time. our traditional ceremonies were conducted in a timeless space and manner. The creation of sacred energy is not complete until all the prayers have been offered. We don’t hear Spirit say “okay I am only here for sixty minutes and then I have to leave or I will be late for the next ceremony.”
I doubt I can change the fact that most of the North American continent observes daylight saving time. I do question whether the ritual of moving clocks forward or backward every six months serves any real purpose than a control program. Those of you who have children in school or work full time will know what I mean when I say daylight saving time is disruptive.
Why must we always follow blindly along? Our all-knowing, all-powerful US government should END daylight saving time and stop the waste and illusion of “losing” or “gaining” an hour every 8 months.
