Time for DST to RIP!

A man, aspiring to conquer the whole world too, will succeed, If he chooses the right time and place for action.(Reference : From ThiruKuRal, a tamil literary work written more than 2 millennium back)

Just came to know that the EU has decided to scrap DST! Commonsense seems to have arrived, after a 100 years in Europe. Now one could only hope that it lands on the shores of USA and every state scraps it off! Just like Arizona; which never accepted the unnecessary drama of DST to begin with.

In 2014, it was one of those days in Spring when my biological sleep clock was disrupted that I decided to research on the origins and needs for DST. I was surprised to know the magnitude of BS that has been allowed in the name of DST for the last 100 years. I made a simple presentation for a small audience at a #Toastmasters meeting in Columbia, MD. I used publicly available research data collected on various topics.

1) Health(biology,agrarian society vs industrialized society, body clock impact on cardiac health),

2) Management(energy savings anomalies, worst case scenario solutions, Pareto's principle of management)

and above all

3) Common sense( Added a anecdote on "Training to Think" exercise on Thought Paradigm)

I was pretty satisfied to be able to convince the entire audience (though only a roomful), on the colossal fails of DST. You cannot make a blanket longer, by cutting a piece off one end and sewing it on the other.

Link to presentation <here>

#DST #DSTfails #commonsense #basics