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People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. | Scientific American

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Something is awry about the way we mark time. Can research and policy changes help us reset the clocks? BY TERESA CARR & UNDARK Commuters walk through the morning bright sunlight coming from the 60 feet (18m) high windows in Grand Central Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2019 the first morning after Daylight Savings Time took effect March 10, 2019. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images In the summer of 2017, when communication professor Jeffery Gentry moved from Oklahoma to accept a position at Eastern New Mexico University, he was pleasantly surprised to find it easier to get up in the morning. The difference, he realized, was early morning light. On September mornings in Portales, New Mexico, Gentry rose with the sun at around 6:30 a.m., but at that time of day in Oklahoma, it was still dark. As the Earth rotates, the sun reaches the eastern edge of a time zone first, with sunrise and sunset occurring progressively later as you move west. Gentry’s move had taken him from the we

March 11, 2024 14 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. Something is awry about the way we mark time. Can research and policy changes help us reset the clocks? By Teresa Carr & Undark Commuters walk through the morning bright sunlight coming from the 60 feet (18m) high windows in Grand Central Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2019 the first morning after Daylight Savings Time took effect March 10, 2019. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images In the summer of 2017, when communication professor Jeffery Gentry moved from Oklahoma to accept a p

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