In just 10 days, clocks in Illinois and in most of the United States will “spring forward” for daylight saving time, resulting in a 23-hour day on March 12.
"The movement in time creates a type of need for orientation and reacclimating, which puts a person off-center," she told NBC 5 Chicago."Light is the most powerful timing cue for the human body clock,” Erin Flynn-Evans, who has a doctorate in health and medical science and is director of the NASA Ames Research Center Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory, said in a statement.
"I think suddenly the sense of feeling annoyed or irritated because of something that was not detected might bring the person's attention to the idea that they weren't fully able to concentrate, the fatigue, perhaps a sleepiness was stealing some of their attention and their concentration ability," she said.According to the Department of Transportation, daylight saving time has a number of benefits. TheIt saves energy.
It saves lives and prevents traffic injuries. During daylight saving time, more people travel to and from school and work and complete errands during the daylight. It reduces crime. During daylight saving time, more people are out conducting their affairs during the daylight rather than at night, when more crime occurs.
A switch to permanent daylight saving time picked up significant legislative support in the Senate in 2022, with theHowever, the legislation stalled in the House has not been reintroduced since the new Congress took office.found that fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. rose 6% in the week after daylight saving started.
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