Daylight Savings Time Negative Effects

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Daylight savings time negative effects that are associated with it. One of these problems with daylight savings time would be the way it effects sleep, daylight savings time turns the clock back an hour which effects the total amount of sleep during the night. The lack of sleep causes more work place injuries because of the 1-hour loss of sleep. there was not just more injury's, but they were also more severe then they usually are (Barnes, Christopher., Wagner, David. 2009). The interesting part about this article is when the daylight savings time was switched back to standard time which added an hour extra to sleep, "there was no significant differences in sleep, injury quantity, or injury severity". (Barnes, Christopher., Wagner, David. 2009).

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