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Daylight savings time. Are people really losing that much sleep over an hour?
It isn't just loss of sleep. My body is very settled on its routine and relies heavily on it. It usually takes me 1-2 weeks to mentally recover from any time change, regardless of whether I gain or lose an hour. During that time I have a hard time sleeping, concentrating, and everything I do feels like it's "off" - it feels like knowing you've forgotten something but can't figure out what it is. When the whole population is forced to do this at the same time twice every year, you get an increase in accidents, aggravated health conditions, and general unhappiness in the country, all at once. And it's all completely preventable, imposed by outdated societal norms. That's why people won't stop complaining. We're hoping change will finally come.
Random assortment of academic work on the topic:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.25324086v3
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0961463X241310562
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268124003639
TL;DR: DST is stupid and it hurts more than it helps. This is a legitimate bitch and it is really fucking stupid that we keep doing DST.