Study highlights the hidden dangers of permanent daylight saving time

Horacio de la Iglesia, University of Washington, SeattlePermanent DST would move the school day earlier relative to the sun without changing a single bell schedule, putting millions of children on streets and at bus stops in the dark for weeks or months every year."

"The name 'Sunshine Protection Act' is misleading," says de la Iglesia. "No clock policy adds a single minute of daylight. It only changes when that daylight is available, and permanent DST moves an hour of light out of the morning, when children travel to school, and into the evening."

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Cell Press

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