Here's how permanent daylight saving time and later school starts could affect health
About 70 countries around the world nudge their clocks back and forth each year -- but some people want to"spring forward" permanently, citing health and other benefits.
Some of those same people are also pushing for later school start times, but experts argue the benefits for tired teenagers could be canceled out by permanent daylight saving time, according to correspondence in the journal Current Biology. The authors argue that California lawmakers pushing for both policies are"confused."The argument goes like this: During daylight saving time, the clock moves an hour forward -- so sunrise and sunset occur an hour later than before.
This is less of a problem for the average Earthling than it is for astronauts, who whip around Earth so fast they see a sunrise every 90 minutes."After a couple of weeks, you're going to be falling asleep several hours later than you did the first day," Erin Flynn-Evans, director of NASA's Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory, previously explained to CNN.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
‘Your boss lied’: Sanders, Gidley face vastly different Mueller questions on CNN, Fox NewsSarah Sanders turned to the safe space of 'Hannity' to discuss the Mueller report's claim that she lied to reporters.
Read more »
Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx's texts revealed her frustration over Jussie Smollett's caseCNN News, delivered. Select from our newsletters below and enter your email to subscribe.
Read more »
SpaceX landed its three Falcon Heavy boosters without flaw. Then a stormy sea knocked one of them downCNN News, delivered. Select from our newsletters below and enter your email to subscribe.
Read more »
FAA panel signs off on 737 Max training planA Federal Aviation Administration panel found changes Boeing made to a 737 Max stabilization system to be 'operationally suitable' and signed off on a training plan for the plane
Read more »
Michigan measles outbreak linked to outbreak in New YorkHealth officials confirm that a measles outbreak in Oakland County, Michigan, is linked to an ongoing outbreak in New York
Read more »
The internet is already awash in Notre Dame conspiraciesEven before the blaze at Notre Dame was extinguished, conspiracy theories and fake news about the fire had ricocheted around the internet
Read more »
Authorities respond to 'credible threat' at Columbine High and other schoolsAuthorities are investigating what appears to be a 'credible threat' at Columbine High School and nearly 20 other schools, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in Colorado said
Read more »
Prosecutors plan to seek up to 10 months in jail for actress Felicity HuffmanProsecutors plan to seek up to 10 months in jail for actress Felicity Huffman for her role in the college admissions scandal
Read more »
Pelosi laments Notre Dame fire, recalls visits to 'central place of faith'House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls the Notre Dame fire a 'tragedy.' 'I remember going there with my family when I was a girl and taking my own children there — my grandchildren going. And (it being) just sort of a central place of faith.'
Read more »
Quasimodo cradling his beloved Notre Dame is how one artist drew her response to the cathedral fireAs Notre Dame cathedral burned and the world's grief mounted, one artist channeled her own emotion by imagining how the church's most famous fictional denizen -- its hunchbacked bell ringer -- might have responded to the calamity
Read more »