Spring Forward or Stay Put? California’s Daylight Saving Dilemma
Spring Forward or Stay Put? California’s Daylight Saving Dilemma Many Californians share a dream: to stop resetting their clocks for daylight saving time. In 2018, a majority of California voters supported doing just that. Yet here we are six years later, dreading the turn of the clocks in a couple of weeks when everyone in California (along with a majority of Americans) will collectively lose an hour of time. On Sunday,...
Read MoreSpringing Forward Into Daylight Saving Time is a Step Back for Health
A neurologist explains the medical evidence, and why this shift is worse than the fall time change by Beth Ann Malow, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University As people in the U.S. prepare to set their clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 12, 2023, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to daylight saving time. About one-third of...
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Daylight Saving Time: Not Every Clock Can Change
Daylight Saving Time[1] has been a clock-changing ritual for most Americans and Canadians for over 100 years. We spring forward an hour the first Sunday in April to kick off longer sunlit days then on the first Sunday in November we fall back an hour to Standard Time. Most residential clocks are digital nowadays, so they automatically adjust to daylight saving time changes. Although we have fewer manual adjustments, it’s...
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