Do You Have a Jet Lag?

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When we have sudden changes of time, we're basically putting people into a state of jet lag. It's just an unnecessary disruption and could cause like, negative, either immediate or possibly even contributeto longer health effects. The argument is less that we should keep standard time or keep daylight savings time. And it's grounded in the science of chronobiology.

A bill to make daylight saving time permanent slipped through the Senate. Now, the real fight for time begins.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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