Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
A pushback has arisen to seasonal clock changes that affect mood, sleep and general well-being
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A pushback has arisen to seasonal clock changes that affect mood, sleep and general well-being
Most Americans don’t like this disruptive ritual — but they’re split about which side of the clock-switching system they prefer.
Benigno Trigo is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities and professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. I recently participated in a doctoral defense via Zoom. During the process, the 4-year-old grandchild of one of my colleagues appeared on the screen. She sat on her grandmother's lap and watched us as we asked questions of the soon-to-be Ph.D. She was restless, smiled, waved and looked quizzically at us as we debated. She got up and started running around. We all went on as if nothing had happened, but our smiles made it clear to me that we were all pleasant...