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How we mark time – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

As the sunlight begins to fade at 5 o’clock today, we spring ahead an hour with the start daylight savings time on March 12. Mt. Penn World War I and II Memorial Clock at the intersection of Howard Blvd and N. 23rd St. Photo by Jeremy Drey 3/9/2017 (Photo By Jeremy Drey/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why

In the summer of 2017, when communication professor Jeffery Gentry moved from Oklahoma to accept a position at Eastern New Mexico University, he was pleasantly surprised to find it easier to get up in the morning. The difference, he realized, was early morning light. On September mornings in Portales, New Mexico, Gentry rose with the sun at around 6:30 a.m., but at that time of day in Oklahoma, it was still dark. As the Earth rotates, the sun reaches the eastern edge of a time zone first, with sunrise and sunset occurring progressively later as you move west. Gentry’s move had taken him from the western side of Central Time in Oklahoma to the eastern edge of Mountain Time. ….[READ]

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