Congress should set clocks permanently to Standard Time, for better sleep, health and public safety
Robert Roy BrittRobert Roy Britt, author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: A Guide to Greater Health, Happiness & Productivity, is a former editor at Live Science. He writes weekly about health and wellness on Medium. This article first published on Medium.
Meanwhile, sleep experts and other scientists are calling for the end of Daylight Saving Time , saying clocks should be forever set on Standard Time — as happens in Hawaii, most of Arizona, and the U.S. territories. That would provide more hours of morning daylight, for adults and kids alike, thereby more properly setting the body's internal sleep-wake clock, called the circadian system.
Switching permanently to Standard Time would mean people wake up in the dark, before sunrise, much less often than with the current time-change scheme or with a switch to permanent DST. Why it mattersNatural, outdoor daylight, especially in the morning, is crucial to keeping your circadian system well-timed, said Dr. Nathaniel Watson , professor of neurology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and co-director of UW Medicine's Sleep Center.
Setting the clocks back an hour is an opportunity to grab some extra shut-eye, sure. But payback comes with the next jump forward, after which a slightly sleep-deprived population will endure its annual spike in car crashes and heart attacks.
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