Comment to Impact of Daylight Saving Time on circadian timing system: An expert statement
Popular Physics
2019-03-07 v2
Abstract
1000 words comment on a paper published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine by a panel of experts. My point is authors address the magnitude of the change (one hour) but fail to consider in any way its seasonal features. DST is not a random change of an hour but an specific change on specific dates and in a specific direction ---spring forward, fall back---. DST is the way many contemporary societies handles the seasonality. The way many contemporary societies turn a nonseasonal clock (the mechanical clock) into a seasonal clock.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.01908,
title = {Comment to Impact of Daylight Saving Time on circadian timing system: An expert statement},
author = {Jose Maria Martin-Olalla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01908},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
1000 words, 1 figure, revtex two column (2 pages). Published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine