Sleep expert on health impact of "jarring" daylight saving time jumps
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[0:00] Overnight daylight savings time ends or
[0:02] saving time ends. I always say it gets
[0:04] me. It gets me every time. All right.
[0:06] That means at 2 am clocks fall back an
[0:08] hour giving you one extra hour of sleep.
[0:10] Standard time lasts from November to
[0:12] March when we'll have daylight earlier
[0:14] in the morning with darkness in the
[0:15] evening coming sooner until we spring
[0:17] forward in March. Right. Seems like we
[0:20] all have gripes when it comes to
[0:21] changing the clock twice a year. You're
[0:23] not alone. In recent years, there's been
[0:25] a debate about the significant health
[0:26] impacts caused by those changes. Sleep
[0:28] expert Dr. Shelby Harris is a clinical
[0:30] professor at the Albert Einstein College
[0:32] of Medicine here in New York City and
[0:34] the author of The Women's Guide to
[0:36] Overcoming Insomnia. Sounds like you
[0:38] wrote a book just for me, Dr. Harris.
[0:40] Good morning.
[0:41] >> Good morning.
[0:42] >> Um, okay. So, explain this to me. I'm
[0:44] hearing that health experts are saying
[0:45] that the standard time is the pre