Spring ahead as Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday

It’s a good reminder to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and clean out your dryer vents, but many feel that’s the only benefit of Daylight Saving Time.

As people stumble around sleep deprived, turning all their clocks and watches forward this weekend, NEWS 95.7’s Richard Zurawski said there’s dangerous side effects of the time change to be aware of.

He explained stroke and heart attack rates increase in the days after we lose an hour of sleep.

“When we start messing with our circadian rhythms, those are the rhythms our bodies are attached to on a 24-hour clock, what we find is that we hurt ourselves,” he said.

“We also have more collisions on the road, more accidents at work, more people being tired and out of sorts.”

The time change does not apply in Saskatchewan, which is on central standard time year-round.

Daylight saving time ends on November 6th.

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