Urge Congress to Abolish Daylight Saving Time

Twice each year, the sleep patterns of Americans are disrupted by Daylight Saving Time. Studies have shown no benefits to switching back and forth. In fact, a study of traffic accidents throughout Canada in 1991 and 1992 by Stanley Coren of the University of British Columbia before, during, and immediately after the so-called "spring forward" when DST begins in April. Alarmingly, he found an eight percent jump in traffic accidents on the Monday after clocks are moved ahead. He attributes the jump to the lost hour of sleep. In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Coren explained, "These data show that small changes in the amount of sleep that people get can have major consequences in everyday activities." We need to end this nonsense immediately.