Daylight Saving Time 2016 Starts Sunday: How DST Affects Your Health

Tufts University Professor Michael Downing, author of the book "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time", has cited the economic advantages to certain industries such as home fix, as well as sports and outdoor recreation, when darkness descends an hour later. But why? The reason the United States and many other countries, mostly in the West, shift to daylight saving time is contentious and confusing, and some of the more popular explanations are not grounded in reality.

You'll lose an hour of sleep Sunday morning, but gain an hour of sun later in the afternoon as Daylight Saving Time begins in the United States.

It's "daylight saving time", not "daylight savings time.”

Maybe it'll be a bit harder to drag yourself out of bed Sunday after losing an hour's sleep Saturday night. Most DVRs, computers and cellphones automatically switch from standard time to DST and back.

"Let's dispense with this failed Daylight Saving Time experiment", he said.

The practice is also credited with increasing driving safety and reducing the number of auto accidents, David Prerau, the author of Seize the Daylight, told the New York Times. Here's everything you need to know about daylight saving time beginning this year.

It took World War I for Willett's dream to come true, but on April 30, 1916, Germany embraced daylight saving time to conserve electricity.

Given that Pacific Standard Time is now barely four months long and Daylight Saving Time twice as long, it seems we ought to at least change their names.

Hawaii, "most" of Arizona, and American territories don't observe DST.

If your argument against daylight saving time is the dark mornings in winter, think again.

So don't forget to set your clocks ahead this Sunday, March 13! The team found that changing the clock forward or back by an hour increases the risk of stroke.

Even worse, a 2010 study in IN that used the state's split among time zones to create a natural control group suggested Daylight Saving Time requires people to use more energy overall than they would if they simply left their clocks alone.