Daylight Saving Time Is Literally Killing Us

Brian Snyder/Reuters Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 4, 2018. At 2:00 a.m. that morning, most phones and computers will automatically shift an hour back, and we'll get an extra hour of sleep. The interruption to our internal clocks is a welcome reprieve each fall, but in the spring it 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 InsiderNOW WATCH: Here's why we should just scrap daylight-saving time already See Also:Daylight-saving time is a curse against humanity, and we should end it foreverWhy we have different blood types and why they matterNASA went all out and transformed Halloween pumpkins into fighting robots for its annual carving contestSEE ALSO: Daylight-saving time is dumb and we should get rid of it

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