All the ways daylight saving time screws with you
When entire countries lose an hour of sleep simultaneously, bad things happen.
By Sara Chodosh March 12, 2018
Only a narrow band of people are really that affected by daylight saving. But gosh darn it, we will complain about it loudly every year.
The annual switch to daylight saving time (DST) is the hour that launched a thousand angry articles. And honestly, this is one of the few events that actually warrants them. DST, in addition to not actually being invented by America’s favorite founding father Benjamin Franklin, is mostly a terrible idea. It has several origins, two of which can be traced back to doddering old white dudes whose leisurely lives meant they were collecting bugs and golfing in the evening. They didn’t understand why more people weren’t appreciating the out-of-doors, and so introduced the idea of shifting the daylight hours, basically in order to fit their own daily routines.
https://www.popsci.com/daylight-saving-time-effects-accidents-health
