Daylight Savings Time And Your Sleep

Mar
08
2009

Daylight Savings Time And Your Sleep

Many of us make the adjustment for day light savings on Saturday night,
two times a year, before going to bed – so we’re on time when we
awake Sunday morning.

Over the years, the changing of the clocks ritual across the country
has resulted in friendly reminders to change the batteries in your
home smoke detectors and changing the air filters in your home’s
heating and cooling system. These advisories have proven to be
potentially both life saving and cost saving reminders for all of us.

2007 marked one of the most significant changes to DST in a long time.
From 1986 to 2006 DST was from the first Sunday in April to the last
Sunday in October. In 2007 the dates changed from the second Sunday in
March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to DST.

This spring-forward fall-back practice was first proposed in 1907 and
saw its most widespread use in 1916 as a wartime measure aimed at
conserving coal. Despite controversy, many countries continue the
time-change practice to this day.

Here in the U.S., adding daylight to afternoons generally benefits
retailing, sports, and other activities that get to enjoy a little
more sunlight after the traditional work day. That extra afternoon
daylight appears to cut traffic accidents and deaths, but the effect
on health and crime is less obvious.

There have long been claims that DST saves electricity by reducing
your need on summer evenings to turn-on the lights. However another
school of thought suggests it can actually boost peak electricity
demand – thereby increasing electricity costs.

Now that you know a little more about DST, how does it affect your sleep.

For me personally, I don’t like when we change the clocks back & forth. I always find that it does mess with my sleep.

For others, they have told me the same thing, and still others have said they do not feel a difference.

How about you?

Do you experience sleep loss? Sleep deprivation? Insomnia?

Let’s do an informal poll, post a comment, and we will tally the scores up. I look forward to what all of my faithful readers have to say on this.

Sleep well.

Trapper
Creator of “Press Play, Then Sleep”
http://www.sleepsecretaudio.com

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1 Comment

Claus D Jensen says:

March 8, 2009 at 10:40

Hi Trapper!
Specially when you have kids, it takes some time to get adjusted to the new clock. When they are babies it takes longer than now, but still….

The worst is when you set the clock one hour ahead of sun time.. Here it happens 29th of March. Loosing an hour of sleep is not too funny….

Greetings, Claus