Could Donald Trump Finally End America’s Twice Yearly Clock-Setting Nightmare?

“Daylight Saving Time (DST) transitions,” researchers wrote in Brain Sciences earlier this year,  “act as a population-wide circadian stressor, leading to sleep disruption, cognitive impairment, emotional dysregulation, and short-term increases in psychiatric symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality. … At the population level, findings support growing calls to reconsider or eliminate seasonal clock changes …”

We already knew that, though, didn’t we? Twice a year, every year, for more than a century now, most Americans “spring forward” or “fall back,”  pretending that an hour has been deleted from, or inserted into, our sleep schedules.

Our bodies spend weeks adjusting to each “new normal,” leading to, among other things, measurable increases in traffic fatalities.

The practice never made much sense, even back before cheaper, more........

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