HB-4052: Oppose, Amend to Standard Time - Jay Pea, Save Standard Time (2021 February 14)
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A letter from Jay Pea, Save Standard Time, dated 2021 February 14, to the Committee on Commerce & Tourism of the Michigan House of Representatives, with the reference line HB-4052: Oppose-Amend to Standard Time. It asks the committee to oppose HB-4052, to refer it to the Committees on Health, Safety, Families, and Education, and to recommend its amendment to permanent Standard Time, with a draft amendment attached. The letter states that Permanent DST would delay Michigan's sunrises to 9:33am and lists organizations it says oppose permanent DST. It is followed by a list of cited references and by the draft amendment text, which provides that the state shall at all times observe the Standard Time of the United States.
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2021 February 14
Committee on Commerce & Tourism
Michigan House of Representatives
Lansing, Michigan
Re: HB-4052: Oppose—Amend to Standard Time
Dear Honorable Representatives,
Thank you for your commitment to the well-being of all in Michigan. I write on behalf of my
nonprofit to ask you to oppose HB-4052, to refer it to the Committees on Health, Safety, Fam-
ilies, and Education, and to recommend its amendment to permanent Standard Time (draft
amendment attached).
Scores of organizations representing thousands of scientists/doctors and millions of teach-
ers/parents oppose permanent DST and endorse permanent Standard Time. Among these are
the Michigan Academy of Sleep Medicine, National PTA, National Safety Council, American
Academy of Sleep Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Oc-
cupational & Environmental Medicine, Start School Later, and Society for Research on Biolog-
ical Rhythms.[AASM][CSC][ESRS][RIVM][SRBR]
Healthy sleep is essential to viral immunity (including COVID),[Meira][Panda][Ray & Reddy] and for years
the CDC has classified sleep deprivation as a nationwide epidemic.[Jin] Springing clocks forward
to DST acutely deprives sleep. Leaving clocks forward on DST chronically deprives sleep (aver-
age 19 minutes nightly). An hour delay of sunrise each day (such as by DST) manifests as
statistically significant increases in accidents, illness and disease (cancers up 12–36%), and
healthcare costs, and as statistically significant decreases in education, productivity, and wages
(down 3–5%). It’s not just clock change that harms. Longitudinally correct Standard Time pre-
serves morning sunlight, when human biology needs it most.[AASM][Borisenkov][CSC][Curtis][ESRS][Gib-
son][Giuntella][Gu][Jenkins][Juda][RIVM][Roenneberg][SRBR][Watson]
Scientific polling shows strong public support to end clock change, with slight preference for
Standard Time.[AP] History shows public support for permanent DST reverses to opposition once
its dark winter mornings are experienced.[BBC][Ripley][Yorkshire] Permanent DST would delay Michi-
gan’s sunrises to 9:33am, and past 8am for 5.2 months. It would undo the benefits of starting
school later, and it would disrupt parents’ work hours.[Cell Press][Skeldon & Dijk] Standard Time keeps
most sunrises before 8am, when most work/school starts,[CDC][Silver] for healthier sunlight expo-
sure, circadian alignment, sleep, alertness, immunity, and productivity.
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SAVE STANDARD TIME
Please oppose HB-4052 until it is amended to permanent Standard Time—as is federally pre-
approved and best for health, safety, education, and economy. I would be glad to provide
committee testimonies and expert statements on this issue.
Sincerely yours,
Jay Pea
Save Standard Time
PO Box 40238
San Francisco, California 94140
jay@SaveStandardTime.com
+1-415-484-3458
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SAVE STANDARD TIME
Endorsements of Permanent Standard Time as the Better Year-Round Clock
The following parties reject permanent Daylight Saving Time and endorse permanent Standard Time as the
better year-round clock. These are not implied to be endorsements of the Save Standard Time entity.
Organizations (non-comprehensive list)
National PTA National Education Association
National Safety Council American Academy of Sleep Medicine
American College of Chest Physicians American Federation of Teachers
National School Boards Association American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
B-Society Start School Later
American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine Rabbinical Council of America
European Sleep Research Society Society for Research on Biological Rhythms
Agudath Israel of America Florida PTA
Society of Anesthesia & Sleep Medicine World Sleep Society
German Teachers’ Association European Biological Rhythms Society
French Society for Sleep Research & Medicine Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine
National Commission for the Rationalization of Spanish Hours American Academy of Cardiovascular Sleep Medicine
California Islamic University Agudath Israel of Florida
Society for Light Treatment & Biological Rhythms Francophone Chronobiology Society
Rabbinical Council of California Association of Canadian Ergonomists
Agudath Israel of California Good Light Group
Northwest Noggin Neuroscience Agudath Israel of Chicago
California Sleep Society Daylight Academy
Michigan Academy of Sleep Medicine Kentucky Sleep Society
Ohio Bicycle Federation Maryland Sleep Society
Wisconsin Sleep Society Australasian Chronobiology Society
Canadian Society for Chronobiology Cuyahoga Astronomical Association
Southern Sleep Society Adath Israel San Francisco
Normal Time All the Time Tennessee Sleep Society
German Society for Time Policy Curtis Clock Lab
Missouri Sleep Society Capitol Neurology
Solaris Fatigue Management Stephens Memorial Observatory
Sleep Medicine Association Netherlands Dutch Society for Sleep–Wake Research
Chronobiology Lab Groningen Dakotas Sleep Society
Better Times Platform Abolish Time Change!
Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society
Individuals (non-comprehensive list)
Raúl Aguilar-Roblero MD PhD, Laboratory on Circadian Rhythmicity, Institute of Cellular Physiology, Mexico
Konstantin V Danilenko MD PhD, Institute of Physiology & Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
Elizabeth B Klerman MD PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Michael T Lam MD PhD, San Diego, California
Michael McCarthy MD PhD, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego
Thomas E Nordahl MD PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis
David K Welsh MD PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
Amir Zarrinpar MD PhD, Assistant Professor, San Diego, California
Salman Ahsan PhD, San Jose, California
Shimon Amir PhD, Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Sonia Ancoli Israel PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
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Michael Antle PhD, Professor, Hotchkiss Brain Institute & University of Calgary, Alberta
Susanna Barry PhD, College Mental Health Counselor & Sleep Coach, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Bechtel PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego
Mikhail Borisenkov PhD, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences
Joseph Boyd PhD, Research Scientist, MilliporeSigma, Temecula, California
Hugo Calligaro PhD, San Diego, California
Oscar Castanon-Cervantes PhD, Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Joanna C Chiu PhD, Vice Chair, Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California, Davis
Scott Cookson PhD, Quantitative BioSciences, San Diego, California
Jason DeBruyne, PhD, Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Grant Denn PhD, Physics Department Chair, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado
Heinz Freisling MSc PhD, Epidemiologist, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Frederic Gachon PhD, Group Leader, Physiology of Circadian Rhythms, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Susan S Golden PhD, Director, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego
Marijke CM Gordijn MS PhD, Chrono@Work, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Bill Griesar PhD, Northwest Noggin Neuroscience Outreach Group, Portland, Oregon
Liz Harrison PhD, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego
Dietrich Henckel PhD, Professor, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Erik Herzog PhD, Professor of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri
Myriam Juda PhD, Researcher, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Achim Kramer PhD, Professor of Chronobiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Camilla Kring PhD, Speaker, Author, & Entrepreneur, Copenhagen, Denmark
Katja Lamia PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine, Center for Circadian Biology, UC San Diego
Andy LiWang PhD, University of California, Merced
Travis Longcore PhD, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
Emily Manoogian PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, San Diego, California
Peter Mansbach PhD, Bethesda, Maryland
Erik Maronde PhD, Scientist, Frankfurt, Germany
Girish Melkani MS PhD, Associated Research Professor, San Diego, California
Martha Merrow PhD, Professor of Chronobiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Matt Metzgar PhD, Clinical Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Ralph Mistlberger PhD, Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
João Nunes PhD, Biochemistry Researcher, Dresden, Germany
Marie Pariollaud PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California
Ketema Paul, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Linda Petzold PhD, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Frank Powell PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Kendall Satterfield PhD, San Diego, California
Dorothy D Sears PhD, San Diego, California
Benjamin Smarr PhD, Professor of Bioengineering & Data Science, University of California, San Diego
Andrea Smit PhD, Researcher, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Barbara Sorg PhD, Legacy Research Institute, Portland, Oregon
Melissa A St Hilaire PhD, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Andrew Steele PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University
Jennifer Thomas PhD, Professor, San Diego, California
Gianluca Tosini PhD, Chief Scientific Research Officer, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Roger Tseng PhD, Biological Scientist, USDA, Ames, Iowa
Judy Village PhD CCCPE, President, Association of Canadian Ergonomists, British Columbia
Daniel S Whittaker PhD, Los Angeles, California
Anna Wirz-Justice PhD, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel, Switzerland
Irving Zucker PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Mariah Baughn MD, San Diego, California
Richard E Cytowic MD, Washington, DC
Mona Ezzat MD, San Diego, California
John F Gottlieb MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Chicago, Illinois
Royan Kamyar MD, Physician, La Mesa, California
Jack Kruse DMD MD, Neurosurgeon, New Orleans, Louisiana
Beth Malow MD MS, Medical Doctor & Researcher, Brentwood, Tennessee
Tessa Sugarbaker MD MFT, San Francisco, California
Nathaniel F Watson MD MSc, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Dr Archana G Chavan, University of California, Merced
Dr Chelsea Gustafson, Assistant Professor, Portland, Oregon
Dr Paul Kelley, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Dr Irving Lebovics, Los Angeles, California
Prof Stacey Harmer, University of California, Davis
Betty C Jung MPH RN MCHES, New Haven, Connecticut
Fabian Mohedano, President of Catalan Council for Vocational Training, Former Member of Parliament
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SAVE STANDARD TIME
BILL TO END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BY PERMANENT STANDARD TIME
An act to amend the Government Code in relation to the state’s computation of time; to
provide that the state shall at all times observe the Standard Time of the United States; to
exempt the state from the advancement of clocks to Daylight Saving Time; to provide an
effective date; to repeal any conflicting laws; and to urge neighboring states to enact similar
law.
WHEREAS Standard Time as currently defined by federal law provides a practical
approximation of natural solar time;
WHEREAS changing clocks each year to Daylight Saving Time is unhealthy, unsafe,
unpopular, and disruptive to education and to the economy;
WHEREAS the consensus of doctors, scientists, and experts in chronobiology, neurology,
endocrinology, psychology, immunology, and other medical fields, and the consensus of
teachers and children’s advocates, is that only permanent Standard Time provides the best
and most practical conditions for the public’s sleep quality, physical health, mental well-
being, roadway safety, workplace safety, workplace productivity, and learning capabilities;
WHEREAS history shows that only permanent Standard Time provides the most sustainable
conditions for public support;
WHEREAS federal law permits states to opt out of Daylight Saving Time by observation of
permanent Standard Time;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED, that:
The state, and all political subdivisions thereof, shall at all times observe the Standard Time
of the United States, as provided by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 USC Sections 261
through 263);
The state, and all political subdivisions thereof, shall be exempt from the advancement of
time as provided by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 USC Sections 260a);
This act shall take effect on January 1 of the year following adoption of legislation to opt
out of Daylight Saving Time in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania;
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act shall be repealed;
And the state shall urge its neighboring states to enact similar law as soon as possible.
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