LANSING, Mich. — Daylight saving time is something that most of us don’t think about regularly. Twice a year, we change our clocks and that’s that. But at least one Michigan legislator says we should be thinking about it.
“I’ve taken the initiative to do what’s necessary for daylight savings, to go ahead and lock the clock, set it and forget it,” state Rep. Peter Lucido, R-Shelby Township, said.
He argues we’re switching our clocks back and forth for no good reason. And during a Tuesday hearing before a legislative committee in Lansing, he said that in fact, the switch could be causing harm.
“The changing of the clocks on the human body, for example, it increased heart attacks by about 5 or 10 percent immediately after the change, which is Monday morning. These are documented figures,” Lucido said.
He said that traffic crashes go up, workers are less productive and students are negatively impacted — all, he said, because sleep habits are changed when we adjust the clock for daylight saving time.
His solution? Just quit it.
Pick a time, Lucido suggests — Eastern Standard or Eastern Daylight — and stick with it. He has introduced a bill to the state legislature to make that happen.
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