Lucido says he wants the whole state to be on Central Time year-round and there’s no logical reason to force people to lose sleep and change their clocks twice a year.
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WVU Sleep Specialist, Hawley Montgomery, suggests a gradual approach. Since 2007, daylight saving time has begun on the second Sunday of March, ending on the first Sunday of November.
Daylight Saving Time kicks in early Sunday in which we shift an hour of morning daylight to the early evening.
In the 1780s, Ben Franklin, the guy who “discovered” electricity, noticed people burned candles at night, but slept past dawn.
Experts have advised the sleep-deprived to avoid screens before bed for years, but the advice is even more important when Daylight Saving Time kicks in. “When time shifts, remember your body has a clock, too”, said Dr. Yosef Krespi, director of the Center for Sleep Disorders at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
With Daylight Saving Time usually comes the semi-annual reminder to change the batteries in your home’s smoke detectors. It is likely that this link exists due the fact that losing an hour of sleep increases stress and provides less time to recover overnight.
New research, carried out at the University of Turku in Finland, has uncovered a rather surprising association.
“Further studies must now be done to better understand the relationship between these transitions and stroke risk and to find out if there are ways to reduce that risk”, a coauthor said in a statement.
But should we abolish DST?
Areas of Quebec east of 63° west longitude remain on Atlantic Standard Time all-year round.
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CYBER LOAFING: In 2012, a Journal of Applied Psychology study found cyberloafing – surfing the web at work – increased in more than 200 metropolitan US regions during the first Monday after Daylight Saving Time in the spring, compared with Mondays directly before and a week after the switch.
