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Witness urges committee not to advance SCR 6, cites health and safety risks of year‑round daylight time
Summary
A Safe Standard Time board member opposed Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 in a second hearing, urging the Government Oversight and Reform Committee to keep year‑round standard time as the preferred option, citing circadian research and urging committee members to review studies.
Michael Gerahan, a board member of Safe Standard Time, offered opponent testimony at the second hearing on Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 and asked the committee not to advance the resolution.
Gerahan told the committee that moving the clock ahead year round "is not like traveling where the sun at our destination helps us reset. It's more like bringing the other time zone here, and the sun keeps doing what it was doing." He said morning light is the most important…
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