#daylight-saving-time

#daylight-saving-time

Sunrise alarm clocks simulate the sunrise right on your bedside table, slowly brightening over the course of anywhere between 10 minutes and an hour, helping activate your circadian rhythm and naturally waking you up. If you're interested in one after the rough loss of an hour, you're in luck.

Animals' risk of becoming roadkill depends on several factors, including how many vehicles are on the road, how many animals are on the road, and how animals and human drivers behave, explains Tom Langen, a professor of biology at Clarkson University, who studies animal-vehicle collisions. DST can minimize these collisions, however.

Since 2018, 19 states - including much of the South and a block of states in the northwestern U.S. - have adopted laws calling for a move to permanent daylight saving time. There's a catch: Congress would need to pass a law to allow states to go to full-time daylight saving time, something that was in place nationwide during World War II and for an unpopular, brief stint in 1974.

If you poll Americans on whether they're 'in favor of daylight saving time,' they'll unequivocally tell you that they hate it, as you should no doubt expect of anything perceived by the public as an inconvenience. As a result, you'll find that the idea of 'abolishing daylight saving time' is generally quite popular ... but then the concept completely falls apart when it comes time to decide how the alternative would work.

March brings tremendous daylight with 11 hours and 14 minutes of it to start and 12 hours and 40 minutes to finish. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, March 8, we spring forward into daylight saving time again; then two weeks later, astronomical spring begins on March 20 (the spring equinox) and the sun angle rises by over 10 degrees.

It's that time of year again: Many Americans will have to reset their clocks and circadian rhythms when daylight saving time ends on Sunday. That means, in most states, lighter mornings and darker evenings. At 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, the time for millions across the country will jump back one hour an adjustment that has been both welcomed by those seeking extra sleep time or criticized by those who see it as an inconvenience. Here is what you should know.

The current March to November system that the US follows began in 2007, but the concept of "saving daylight" is much older. Daylight saving time has its roots in train schedules, but it was put into practice in Europe and the United States to save fuel and power during World War I, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

But as an Indigenous person who studies environmental humanities, this sort of effort, and the debate about it, misses a key ecological perspective. Biologically speaking, it is normal, and even critical, for nature to do more during the brighter months and to do less during the darker ones. Animals go into hibernation, plants into dormancy. Humans are intimately interconnected with, interdependent on, and interrelated to nonhuman beings, rhythms and environments.

On Sunday, October 26, clocks will again "fall back" one hour, ending Central European Summer Time (CEST), after having "sprung forward" an hour in March. What is daylight savings time (DST) and why is it used? Around 35% of countries currently adhere to the daylight savings time system, which was first instituted on a national level in 1916 in the German and the Austro-Hungarian Empires. DST saw broad international implementation in the 1970s as a means of saving energy after the oil crisis.

The spring transition appears to be a perfect storm of fatigue, impaired alertness, and risky driving conditions, with a 6% spike in fatal crashes.