Americans have long been divided over adopting permanent standard versus permanent daylight saving time. But support for permanent standard time grew dramatically between 2021 and 2024.
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Americans are divided on their preference for daylight saving time versus standard time. But research shows that our bodies fare better when aligned with the natural light of standard time.
The length of a day has critical impacts on our technologies, navigation, and more.
Two sleep doctors offer some survival tips to help you adjust to losing that hour of sleep as clocks spring forward into daylight saving time.
By altering the body’s internal clock, ‘springing forward’ may contribute to an increase in heart attacks and strokes.
Time changes make many people feel tired, irritable, and unable to sleep.
Most Americans dread the time switch to daylight saving time, which results in a loss of an hour’s sleep. The downside is more serious than that – it can lead to workplace injuries and traffic fatalities.
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Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Management, University of Oregon
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Co-Director Pediatric Sleep Evaluation Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
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Director of the Pediatric Sleep Evaluation Center, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor in Physiology and Metabolism, University of Bradford
