A Sleep Scientist Says Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is a Bad Idea

Flick on those sun lamps, everyone. With the last 6pm or later sunset time of 2022 now in the rearview, the Big Dark has officially arrived in Seattle. And it’s about to get even gloomier.

On November 6 at 2am, daylight saving time will once again draw to a close, turning back the clocks one hour and dimming happy hours for the foreseeable future. Our SAD state is so bleak that Washington passed a bill to make DST permanent. But that legislation can’t go into effect without enacting the policy federally, which seemed like a long shot…until last year, when the Patty Murray–backed Sunshine Protection Act passed in the U.S. Senate.

The bill would

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