Once again, with the exception of two states and five territories, we as a nation have jointly and voluntarily decided to call at a certain time, one hour later. We will once again have to adjust our less smart or strictly mechanical devices with clock functions to the newly created time scale, and we will have to stop doing so.

According to Business Insider, one reason we do it is because it kills us. In the days following the time change, strokes and heart attacks have increased. And with one hour less sleep, there will be more mistakes at work and traffic accidents. I know it’s because I had a hard time getting back to sleep early Sunday morning, not only because I woke up early and couldn’t sleep, but also because I was afraid that I wouldn’t wake up in time.

Daylight savings time changes have both short- and long-term negative effects. According to Scientific American, the time change will affect his entire March to November period. Acting as if noon is actually 1 p.m. disrupts our circadian rhythms. Additionally, natural light, or lack thereof, affects how our bodies release hormones such as cortisol and melatonin.

Daylight savings time changes in light are most noticeable at the western edge of the time zone, because light enters and leaves the area more slowly than at the eastern edge of the time zone. The “Western Edge” effect is bad news.

The double whammy of sleep disturbances and “disturbed circadian rhythms” makes people living in the far west more likely to develop breast cancer, heart disease and even metabolic disorders such as diabetes. These health issues are similar to those faced by shift workers and people who work outside of the day. For both people, the problem comes from following the clock rather than the sun.

The idea of ​​adding an extra hour of daylight is understandably popular. According to sleepfoundation.org, more people choose it than don’t. Congress even wrote a bill called the Sunshine Protection Act that would have implemented daylight saving time year-round, but thankfully it went nowhere.

There is no additional time. There are 24 hours in a day, but until the summer solstice, the amount of daily sunlight increases proportionally, and until the summer solstice, the hours of daylight are reversed.

You’re not saving energy either. The energy you don’t use at night will be used when you get ready in the dark in the morning. Daylight saving time is just a trick by some early risers to get everyone up before sunrise. It was also part of the war effort during World War I and World War II.

Consider the sundial, a beautiful and ingenious clock that requires no power source. I think there may be a way to rearrange them to reflect this false agreement on time. But installing cranes and bulldozers at Stonehenge is not the solution we are looking for.