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It’s Time to Kill Daylight Saving Time—And Replace It With Something Better – CIRCADIAN Time

November 3, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

We just went through another time change, and like clockwork (pun intended), social media erupted with complaints. Our bodies feel off. Our kids are cranky. Our sleep schedules are disrupted. Productivity drops for weeks.

The debate always follows the same pattern: some people cite energy savings and evening daylight as benefits, while others point to increased heart attacks, car accidents, and workplace injuries in the days following the switch. States threaten to opt out. Congress occasionally considers making Daylight Saving Time permanent. And then we all move on until the next time change.

But here’s what nobody’s asking: why are we still letting a system invented in 1918 dictate how 330 million Americans experience time?

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Heart beats to the rhythm of a Circadian Clock

February 23, 2012

Hearts respond to natural rhythms.

Sudden cardiac death -catastrophic and unexpected fatal heart stoppage — is more likely to occur shortly after waking in the morning and in the late night.

In a report in the journal Nature, an international consortium of researchers that includes Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland and Baylor College of Medicine explains the molecular linkage between the circadian clock and the deadly heart rhythms that lead to sudden death.

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