Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It's Messing With Our View of the Cosmos

Daylight Saving Time Disrupts LIGO Gravitational Wave Detection

In the intricate world of gravitational wave detection, where scientists chase ripples in spacetime from cataclysmic cosmic events, an unexpected earthly ritual is throwing a wrench into the works: daylight saving time. Researchers at advanced observatories like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have long battled environmental noise to isolate these faint signals, but a new analysis reveals that the biannual clock sh…

Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It's Messing With Our View of the Cosmos

An anonymous reader shares a report: In a preprint titled "Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?," Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the University of Toronto, gives a simple answer to the paper's title: "Yes, it can." The paper, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, was recently ...