Bring on the sun. Bring it on time to spring
forward this weekend. Set those clocks ahead this
sunday two AM, Most of us will have to lose an hour of
sleep go to gain. I feel bad for you because you have a
two year old at home and so he's gonna be just up and
early. Yes, we'd love to see it. Some people don't
think twice about the change, but a lot of people do
not like it. There are strong feelings on both sides.
In fact 18 states have passed legislation in the last
few years to make daylight saving time permanent.
Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states in the
country that don't take part in the time change at all
in the Navajo Nation, a native american territory tha
interconnects into new Mexico and Utah does not observe
daylight saving time. That's confusing when you're
traveling a lot. But that's the fact that we, that's
why we always have this debate here that some states do
and those those you know, okay here to explain, break
it all down. Which is a conversation we have every ye
and nothing changes. But we're gonna do it again. This
is the nation's timekeeper demetrios. Matsakis.
science is for Master clock incorporated. Thanks for
your time. Good morning sir. Ho are you I am just fine.
I should be a little modest though. Formerly I ran t
time service department that for the Naval Observatory
was told time to GPS and therefore the world. But I
retired from that job. Master Clark is a fine company.
I work with them, but they're not yet. The nation's
time. People, I appreciate the clarification. Thank you
sir. And thank you for helping GPS. That's one way to
get around. So I I appreciate appreciate that. Oka
I feel like we have this debate this discussion eve
year. Is there any likelihood greater likelihood t
year something will change or are we just gonna talking
and talking and talking and then nothing. I'm I see
some uh some decisions that could be made and there's
things outside the system that are that are causing
that. But the basic fact is just like you said in the
introduction, people like to play that's a human trait
and we played better in the daylight in the summer time
That's the main force as I see it for having it yet.
The european union voted to abolish daylight time.
Country by country. They haven't done it yet, but
that's the direction they're going. And they probably
would have done it if the coronavirus hadn't inter
There are also a few studies that have been that hav
come up which I am a critic of. I haven't gone into
publishing it yet, but I have read them. I don't think
these studies are valid. But other people do and they
say there are some detrimental effects due to dayl
time. So these are forces that could have something to
have a change of religion of democracy. People s
get what they want. And if people want to have
permanent daylight time, Well, that's all fine with me.
They should have it. So I can see some change happening
Obviously not this year, but in the near future. I
can't I I definitely hope that whatever we choose, I
hope that it is the springing forward actually,
I like the daylight. I don't like when it's dark
outside at four PM. So I'd rather yeah, I'd rather
spring ahead and make that be permanent. But what are
some of those detrimental effects that you were just
talking about Okay, well, I'll tell you when we say
historical implication, you don remember it. But I do
in 1970 for about there, we went on permanent daylight
time. We did it for about a year and we stopped, we
went off of it. And it was unpopular because
schoolchildren, I had to get up early in the dark in
the cold in the winter time to get their school bus.
And some Children were killed in a traffic accident.
Which was a horrible thing. There was a report though,
which really perturbed me. The Congressional report
said that noted that the Children were killed. And it
also said that more there were less Children killed. It
was safely safer because less Children were killed in
the afternoons. But it reports that even so this is not
how politics works. We don't do it by the overall thing.
We should get rid of daylight time. That was in the
report and in fact it went away. Russia also tried
going to permanent daylight tim and it abandoned it in
2014 because it got so cold in the winter. The winters
are a little bit colder than ours generally as well. So
those are some real world experiences of people
abandoning it. But the studies, uh, which I am critical
of, are saying that uh, there's a slightly more traffic
accidents, slightly more traffic fatalities when we
switch forward in the spring, not in the winter, in the
fall, when we go back to Pemberley, there's another t
studies that say there's more heart attacks. Just a few
more heart attacks. And it notes that those are
probably heart attacks that that probably would have
happened anyway, but they may have been sped up by the
change, interestingly, one of them says a slight slight
teeth that it sees is a Tuesday after the switch, not
sunday morning or not. The monday morning after the
switch, we're gonna have to leave it there and go home
now and get some sleep because working this shift, we
hate to lose lose an hour. But here here, here's the
deal. We'll see you back here next year for the exact
same conversation after nothing changes. Thank you,
Dimitrius. We appreciate your time sir