Hmmm: Live Longer Without Daylight Saving Time

Not the most uhhh timely post, since we turned our clocks back last Sunday, but I've been a little preoccupied with another topic.

From Reuters...

Clocks spring ahead and fall back when adjusting in and out of daylight saving time. A study finds that heart attack rates do the same.

The research, based on heart attacks in Sweden, concluded that the chance of a heart attack goes up during the first three weekdays after the springtime shift to daylight saving time, possibly because of sleep deprivation.

But on the autumn Monday after clocks go back and people can get an extra hour of shuteye, the heart attack risk declines.

Maybe we should just keep turning clocks back an hour every three days...hmmm.

If you're interested, an extremely thorough explanation of DST is available here.