It’s Time to Fall Back as Daylight Saving Ends Sunday

The clocks 'fall back' one hour this Sunday morning (11/3) at 2am with the end of Daylight Saving Time. Here's our chance to get an extra hour of sleep!

But, is it that easy? If you're like me, you probably wake up around the same time each day. Let's say, I'm out late, I will still wake up at my usual time. So, do we really gain an hour this weekend? Nah, I don't think so. Instead it will get dark earlier. It may be different for you.

I knew there had to be research info on this bi-annual clock change and what it means to our sleep. Sure enough, the journal in Sleep Medicine Review shared this finding:

The autumn transition is often popularised as a gain of 1 h of sleep but there is little evidence of extra sleep on that night. The cumulative effect of five consecutive days of earlier rise times following the autumn change again suggests a net loss of sleep across the week. Indirect evidence of an increase in traffic accident rates, and change in health and regulatory behaviours which may be related to sleep disruption suggest that adjustment to daylight saving time is neither immediate nor without consequence.

That report is a bit of downer if you look at the weekend as bonus sleep time, when it says otherwise. Hey, prove the study wrong and sleep in! Well, for parents that means the kids need to sleep in too. The sun will be up earlier, so that's pretty unlikely.

Okay, all of this talk about time calls for a song: