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Still time to save us from daylight saving time

Tom Purcell on

I dread the coming of Sunday, March 12.

At 2 a.m. that morning our clocks will “spring forward.”

That means that my yellow Labrador, Thurber, who wakes me at exactly 6 a.m. every morning, will begin waking me at exactly 5 a.m. every morning.

He’ll do so because that’s when his Labradorian clock tells him it is time for me to feed him and take him outside for Number 1 and Number 2.

Which means I’ll be in a perpetual stupor for weeks until the two of us finally get used to the clock change — only to have to go through the clock disruption all over again come November.

I’ve become keenly aware of the national daylight saving time debate since I got Thurber two years ago.

 

As I’ve reported prior, the jarring shift to our daily sleep patterns and routines each spring and fall is linked to an increase in heart attacks, strokes and automobile accidents.

In March, when our clocks “spring forward,” hospitals around the U.S. report a 24% spike in heart attack visits.

The reverse happens in the fall when our clocks are set back. Heart attack visits to hospitals drop by 21% — but pedestrian deaths increase because it gets dark earlier.

Finally, one year ago, our esteemed politicians decided to actually do something about it.

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