In March, the Senate approved the Sunshine Protection Act, which aims to make daylight saving time permanent. But some sleep experts say there’s a problem with this legislation: It settles on the wrong time.
The switch from standard time tosparks an annual debate over whether the U.S. should pick one time and stick to it.
“There's extensive research that being on the western edge of a time zone increases the risk of multiple different cancers,” Czeisler says. “A time zone is 15 degrees wide, and every five degrees that an individual lives westward within a time zone increases risk of certain types of cancers in a startlingly high manner.”
Moving to permanent daylight saving time would require everyone to wake up an hour earlier relative to the time the sun rises. Discussion around daylight saving time has focused on the extra light in the evening but Czeisler and others argue this overlooks the downsides. And it’s not true that daylight saving time saves energy, Czeisler says. Author Michael Downing’s book “Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time” explains that theArizona made standard time permanent in part because daylight saving time ended up causing increased energy use from air conditioners, Czeisler says.
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