Daylight Saving Time Is Actually Bad for You

This forced mini jet lag seems to be fueling everything from stress and sleeplessness to a surge in car crashes

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
5 min readOct 30, 2020

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You’re not the only one losing sleep and ranting over the change to and from daylight saving time. A survey in July revealed that 63% of Americans support eliminating the seasonal time changes. The lost…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB