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Be Sure to Adjust your Clocks This Weekend

Brian Yalung — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:42:32 +0000

Come this weekend, November 6, do not forget to fix your clock’s time. Why? Well, Daylight Savings Time will officially end, meaning you have to turn back the hands of clock (at least if you did adjust them) to the regular hours.

This only affects certain regions of course. This means that places like Hawaii, Arizona, Asia and most of Africa are not really affected by DST. In case you are wondering why the time adjustments are needed, DST has been an annual practice to help save energy. It was thought that by tacking on an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon, less electricity would be needed overall.

So this also means you have to adjust to your sleep and wake up schedules as well. Hence, unless you want to wake up on the wrong side of bed, better consider adjusting your time pieces this weekend.

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The Dreaded Daylight Saving Time Adjustment

Brian Yalung — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 04:21:29 +0000

Each year, select parts of the world would practice Daylight Savings Time with the hopes to save on energy, a practice that goes way back to the 1800s. While this should fare well as far as energy conservation is concerned, sleepers have issues against it.

Daylight Savings Time is setting back the clock by an hour, something that people dread and laud. For the sleeping people, adjustment is an issue. As some people struggle to get good and fluent sleep, DST forces them to sacrifice one hour.

One hour of sleep may not be too much of a fuss, but don’t tell that to the hard-hit troubled sleepers. All they can do is groan and moan but the fact remains that this practice does have good intentions, sleeping not included!

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Daylight Savings Time can be a Sleep Hazard

Brian Yalung — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:27:58 +0000

We have all been exposed to time adjustments such as daily savings time (DST) where we have to adjust hours to save on electricity and energy resources. This takes off an hour from our regular sleep and while the intent is good, it may be the other way around as far as sleep deprived people are concerned.

Our bodies have certain clocks that they follow. Even if the need of such adjustments are a given, our bodies still yearn for that proper time where we have to get up. It is at this point where we may have to make a choice; go with the time adjustment or deal with sleep deprivation issues in other means that we can.

“With sleep deprivation we are going to have delayed reaction times, we want to be more aware when driving into work, we’ll be a little more compromised, be more careful driving into work, be more prone to accidents while at work, particularly those who work in the industrial sector, working with machinery,” he said.

(Source) Wcco.com

Daylight Savings Time Causes Sleep Problems

Brian Yalung — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:03:04 +0000

Some may call it a mental problem but dealing with the daylight savings time that has been in effect today has some people suffering from sleep disorder issues encountering more problems. The transition from the old time to DST is really something that many deem as affecting the normal body clock of people. But then again, adjustments should be made to be able to get the proper amount of sleep.

People unaware of the time adjustments to daylight savings time would normally live their usual lives. The thing with people today is that adjusting is taken in vain. Just try ignoring this adjustment and there is really low to none adjustments if people so choose to do so.

Sleep can be considered a ‘change of shifts.’ There is the ‘awake’ day brain and the ‘sleeping’ night brain. The transition or ‘shift change’ from wakefulness to sleep normally takes approximately 10 to 20 minutes. The body needs time to properly shut down the ‘awake’ brain and activate the sleep cycles.”

“Many people with sleep disorders tend to rationalize their symptoms,” says Craig. “They believe fatigue is just part of growing older. Others think they are tired all the time because they are working too hard. Sleep issues are persistently ignored. Sleep studies can help identify the problem early.”

Source: Daylight-saving time brings potential sleeping disorders to light