Public health and safety would benefit from eliminating daylight saving time, according to a position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
I actually like the start of the year being close to the winter solstice (better if on winter solstice) because, for us, that is the start of a new cycle on earth and not in the middle of a transition like the equinox is.
Fair enough … in some places the habitat “comes alive” around March 21 and seems like a start of something new as opposed to everything frozen solid in Jan, but advocating for marking the rebirth of the sun has been working great for millennia.
That is a good argument for the spring equinox. I don’t think there is an absolute start and end of a year, just a continuous cycle. So any start and end point is just arbitrary.
I actually like the start of the year being close to the winter solstice (better if on winter solstice) because, for us, that is the start of a new cycle on earth and not in the middle of a transition like the equinox is.
Fair enough … in some places the habitat “comes alive” around March 21 and seems like a start of something new as opposed to everything frozen solid in Jan, but advocating for marking the rebirth of the sun has been working great for millennia.
That is a good argument for the spring equinox. I don’t think there is an absolute start and end of a year, just a continuous cycle. So any start and end point is just arbitrary.