daylight saving time

(Newser) - One of the much-publicized reasons for turning back our clocks—the supposed savings of 100,000 barrels of oil a day—turns out to be a stat based on the behaviors of Americans three decades ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. In fact, most of the studies that revolve around...

(Newser) - The modern world's proliferation of artificial light is wreaking havoc on the human internal clock, which relies on natural light cues to regulate the body's cycles, scientists say. And daylight saving time makes things even worse, reports the Washington Post. "From the psychiatric perspective, the extension of daylight saving...

(Newser) - Spring ahead, fall back. And fall back again, for many whose clocks wrongly reset themselves last weekend—1 week ahead of the schedule Congress set when it extended Daylight Saving Time. Most cell phones and computers, which get time and date information from networks, weren't affected, but many alarm clocks...