Springing 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

Image caption: Daylight saving time is back again – amid some controversy. Image credit: billhagolan / iStock via Getty Images Plus. Article by Beth Ann Malow. The Conversation – March 6, 2023.

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 Americans say they don’t look forward to these twice-yearly time changes. […]

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