Why Is One Hour Such a Big Deal?

[kevin_standlee]

I've flown cross-country lots of times, which is a three-hour time change, with less disruption to my metabolism than the one-hour change on Sunday morning. I don't get it. But I'm really dragging this morning. Of course, having worked on the apartment cleaning all weekend, with aches and pains to prove it, may have something to do with it.

Comments

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

The reason this time switch throws us off is that the Sun hasn't changed. The light is wrong. It isn't a 7 am sun, it is a 6 am sun. Our bodies, which run on the Sun's clock, know that and they Protest!
At least when we fly across country, although our California watch says 7 am, we see a 10 am sun and the body adjusts accordingly.
I hate the Daylight Wasting time scheme.