My friend Allan reminds us that Daylight Savings Time occurs this weekend – the first Sunday of April, at 2:00 AM. With that in mind, here are some tips on how to minimize the effect of the lost hour.
And be careful driving on Monday; insurance industry records show a spike in traffic accidents the Monday after Daylight Savings Time has taken place; this possibly indicates a chronically sleep deprived society, however it could simply mean that we’re more susceptible to shifts on our internal biological clock than we ever imagined.
[Update] Ed Bott points out that the “proper” spelling/pronunciation is Daylight Saving Time (without the ‘s’ on Saving). His citation for that assertion leads to a wonderful entry in Wikipedia discussing the practise of DST.
[tags] Daylight Savings Time, Daylight Saving Time, DST, sleep tips [/tags]
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