“If shifting the clocks forward for daylight saving time makes you uneasy, there’s a good reason: it will disrupt your sleep.
“When clocks move forward in the spring, we lose an hour. It’s like giving the entire nation one timezone’s worth of jetlag.
“Daylight saving time in the U.S. started as an energy conservation trick during World War I, and became a national standard in the 1960s. But many now feel it has outlived its usefulness…
“One hour of lost sleep sounds like a small change, but we humans are fragile, sensitive animals.
“Small disruptions in our sleep have been shown to alter basic indicators of our health, and dull our mental edge.
“Researchers have also found evidence of serious public health consequences of hundreds of millions of Americans being robbed of sleep every year.”
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