On Sunday, October 5, clocks were again turned forward for daylight saving, upsetting the natural rhythm of the bodies of both young and old.
More and more people around the world are waking up to the fact that daylight saving is causing us problems. These are not just the problems of different time zones dividing borders, but real impacts on our health and wellbeing.
Monash University’s Professor Zimmer said daylight saving had worrying, healthy locations, increased rate of heart and stroke attacks, road accidents and an increase in the number of other health issues in the days just after daylight saving is introduced each year.
I am among those who have been fighting daylight saving for more than 25 years. It saddened me to see children happen to be out in the dark to go to school. Farmers battling change in the natural order of things and mothers trying to get their young children to go to bed in the daylight. Let these adults, teenagers and children that have formed sleep problems because of the effects of daylight saving be free of having to be medicated, especially with no other children as the levels of need for young children to have these sleeping medications for their bodies that struggle to adapt so quickly to this inconvenient choice of change.
It’s time to put daylight saving to bed.
On behalf of the Citizens Against Daylight Saving movement, I’m calling for daylight saving to be only four months of the year, instead of the current six months or a national inquiry into the advantages/disadvantages of daylight saving in the community.
It is the last chance to have our say before it’s extended again for the next 50 years.
– Judith Law, Gunnedah
