04 NOV

Daylight Saving Time is literally killing us

Brian Snyder/Reuters

Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 4, 2018.
At 2:00 a.m. that morning, most phones and computers will automatically shift an hour back, and we’ll get an extra hour of sleep.
The interruption to our internal clocks is a welcome reprieve each fall, but in the spring it literally kills people: incidents of heart attacks, strokes, and fatal car accidents all spike around the start of Daylight Saving Time each year.

The annual ritual in which we trade an hour of morning light for evening brightness may seem like a harmless shift.

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