The ritual of “springing forward” in March and “falling back” in November is considered an inconvenience by many Americans. In fact, 64 percent of them would like to eliminate these biannual disruptions, according to a March 2022 poll by YouGov, an international market research and data analytics company based in the United Kingdom.

That may be why the United States Senate thought it was responding to popular opinion when it unanimously approved last March the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which would abolish these changes and set clocks permanently to daylight saving time.

The problem, according to neurologists and sleep specialists, is that our bodies’ natural clocks are out of sync with daylight saving time. It denies us the morning light we need to wake up and delays the cues of darkness that tell us we need to rest, says Logan D. Schneider, MD, a sleep neurologist at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center in Redwood City, CA. Daylight saving time also increases the gap between our biological clocks and our social clocks.

The Argument between standard and daylight savings time at brainandlife.org