The science behind why people hate Daylight Saving Time so much
Can we use research and policy to change (or not change) the clocks for the last time?
In 2022, Gentry and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues added to that body of research, publishing a study in the journal Time & Society that showed the rate of fatal motor-vehicle accidents was highest for people living in the far west of a time zone, where the sun rises and sets at least an hour later than on the eastern side. Chronobiology research shows that longer evening light can keep people up later and that, as Gentry found, morning darkness can make it harder to get going for work or school. Western-edge folks may suffer more deadly car wrecks, the team theorized, because they are commuting in the dark while sleep deprived and not fully alert.
I, for one, have always hated DST. We need year-round standard time, and those members of Congress who have voted for DST owe us an apology.
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