Daylight Saving Time is literally killing us
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- Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 11, 2018.
- Early that morning, most phones and computers will automatically shift an hour ahead.
- The interruption to our internal clocks literally kills people: incidents of heart attacks, strokes, and fatal car accidents all spike around the start of Daylight Saving Time each year.
Daylight saving time is a killer.
The annual ritual in which we trade an hour of morning light for evening brightness may seem like a harmless shift.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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