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From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: DST Harmful?
Message-ID: <7448@nst>
Date: 16 Apr 91 19:34:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.180823.1462@cs.rochester.edu> <1991Apr8.180949.19534@medisg.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Apr8.180949.19534@medisg.Stanford.EDU> vangeldr@cmgm.Stanford.EDU (Russ Van Gelder) writes:
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>	A great suggestion that I heard a few years ago is to make the
>spring (forward) change "fun Friday".  Instead of causing increased
>sleep-loss by moving the clocks forward on Sunday morning, why not
>move them forward at 4:00 Friday afternoon?  I think most sleep
>researchers would agree that this is a better time to shift the clock
>than the middle of the sleep period.  Politically I think it would be
>popular with the working folk, too...
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This effect actually happens with shift workers. It may be fun in the
spring but working an hour extra in the fall is not.

Shift workers have regular shifts in their sleep schedules of
about 8 hours. If DST is going to affect productivity, then why
wouldn't this show up for shift workers. It always amuses me to
hear executives complain of the effects of jet lag. Their shift
workers are exepcted to perform normally with 8 hour changes in
their schedules every week.