Results: Changing from Daylight Saving Time - A SAD Situation?

There's little doubt that Daylight Saving Time has been a great benefit wherever it has been implemented over the past 100 years. Any problem arising from it has only come from the yearly switching back-and-forth between DST and Standard Time - and the effect this has on the sleep patterns of many people - which has seen an increased volume of accidents as noted by hospital emergency wards in the 2 weeks following each change. With this in mind, do you yourself notice being more fatigued and/or accident-prone following at least one of the twice-yearly time changes?

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a feeling of sadness or malaise experienced by those not otherwise afflicted by a depressive disorder brought about by reduced exposure to daylight as daytime hours shorten in the autumn. Do you believe this effect is made even worse by the early November time change which deprives us of the hour of sunlight we are more likely to be exposed to in the late afternoon than we are early in the morning to where it is shifted?

SAD is experienced by about 5% of the North American population while a milder form of the condition, the 'winter blues', is experienced by another estimated 15%. Even if you don't think you suffer from either of these do you at least find that it has a negative effect on your mood or energy that it gets dark outside around 5 pm during much of the autumn and winter months?

Do you agree that any problem associated with DST isn't DST itself but is more due to the fact that we ever switch off it and that as a society we would be better off if we just stayed on DST all year round (making that the new Standard Time) and finally put an end to the twice-yearly time change madness?