Changing clocks for Daylight Saving Time
linked to potentially deadly brain condition
threatening 300,000 Americans
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Chris Melore
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
9/25/2025 10:21:49 PM
Changing clocks twice a year could be putting 300,000 Americans at risk of a potentially fatal stroke each year. A new study, conducted by Stanford Medicine researchers, found that switching between Daylight Saving Time (DST) and Standard Time (SDT) disrupted the body's internal clock by forcing it to adjust too often to changes in light and darkness. [Snip] The next change is set for November 2, 2025, at 2am in each time zone. [Snip] While simulating what would happen the US decided to make SDT permanent after 'falling back' in November, estimates showed the change could prevent about 300,000 stroke cases annually by reducing this circadian strain.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 9/25/2025 10:27:06 PM (No. 2009064)
daily mail..
they have NOTHING to worry about over there
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/25/2025 11:00:34 PM (No. 2009067)
Good grief. I am certainly no doctor but the DM is only a gnat's a** above being one of Britain's well-known scandal sheets. A little more and they will rival our National Enquirer.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Howard Adams 9/25/2025 11:17:30 PM (No. 2009071)
Let's leave at DST year round. Imagine Central Standard Time in Chicago on July 15th. Sunrise 4:29 AM Sunset 7:23 PM. Get home from work about 6 PM. Sure will be getting darker earlier than one hoped. Wow, we had better set our alarms really early each morning to maximize those circadian rhythms.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 9/25/2025 11:18:08 PM (No. 2009072)
First, this is from Stanford Medicine which is part of Standford School of Medicine in California. Here is the reference to the article so om=ne can read it for themselves. Basically a study to show us what we already know. Ref: Lara Weed and Jamie M. Zeitzer. Circadian-informed modeling predicts regional variation in obesity and stroke outcomes under different permanent US time policies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 15 Sep 2025 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.250829312
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/25/2025 11:51:24 PM (No. 2009075)
Oh, let the bellyaching begin!
Anyone who is in danger of dying from the clocks being advanced or retarded one hour, better not travel east or west to the next time zone.
For the rest of us, setting the clocks back in the fall and ahead in the spring is a way to roughly coordinate the beginning of the standard school day and work day to the beginning of daylight.
I remember when they tried year-round Daylight Savings Time, back around 1973 or so. The school buses began running before sunrise. All the school kids- including first- and second- graders, were out waiting for their buses in the pre-dawn darkness, the coldest hour of the day on the coldest days of the year. THAT was declared a disaster.
On the other hand, year-round Standard Time would have the summertime sun coming up hours before the school day and work day, and people would have to wait for the doors to open, but they would have an hour less of daylight to do what they wanted after the got home from school or from work.
The present system is not perfect, but it's WAY better than the alternatives!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Harlowe 9/26/2025 12:30:16 AM (No. 2009078)
As anticipated, criticism, dismissal and ridicule regarding the correlation between Daylight Savings Time and the negative impact it has on the human body is swift and harsh. Individuals not experiencing negative health effects due to the annual time change would, understandably, be skeptical; however, for individuals experiencing negative health issues, the time change is a problem and some degree of empathy would not only be appreciated, but at least a courteous consideration.
As evidenced so quickly on this thread, the Daily Mail is being subjected to ridicule for publishing the article along with the study by Stanford Medicine along with the suggestion that there is a health correlation involved.. Although some research articles may about DST may be considered outdated, the information at the time was accurate as published—published by Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mayo, Yale.
It has been said, “Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.”
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Safari Man 9/26/2025 12:34:14 AM (No. 2009079)
Dud i miss something? Is today April 1st?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kono 9/26/2025 12:58:56 AM (No. 2009080)
DST is a pain in the butt. But adjusting twice a year isn't traumatic. And having sunrise at 3:30 a.m. in mid-summer would be worse.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NotaBene 9/26/2025 3:59:52 AM (No. 2009104)
I hate the early winter nights.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rather Read 9/26/2025 4:05:31 AM (No. 2009105)
Here we go again. I don't think DST is going to kill me, but I don't like it. For several months I leave in the dark and go home in the dark and I know it affects my mood for the worse. I wish they'd go on standard time and just let things be.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
5 handicap 9/26/2025 5:32:22 AM (No. 2009115)
I have ZERO respect for Stanford Medecine after their Stance re COVID... Their politics have way too much influence on their reasoning! Those 300,000.of 350,000,000...Natural Selection and nothing more!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
philsner 9/26/2025 7:32:47 AM (No. 2009162)
Absolute nonsense. "I felt good yesterday, the time changed, and now I feel bad. Therefore, the numbers on the clock caused it.
Forcing the brain to adjust too often? Twice a year is "too often"? Then how do people mange to fly into different time zones and not die on the spot? I tell ya folks, before accepting any diagnosis from a "doctor", make sure you do a thorough vetting. The amount of daylight in the lower 48 changes every day, just like the weather.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/26/2025 7:37:02 AM (No. 2009167)
Another fantastic claim produced by the DMUK. What, no pictures of people having strokes.? The perfect way to avoid this affliction is to retire and throw your alarm clock into a pond.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 9/26/2025 7:41:24 AM (No. 2009169)
what a crock of ....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/26/2025 8:06:24 AM (No. 2009181)
If we had to choose between one or the other I choose Daylight savings Time.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 9/26/2025 9:06:11 AM (No. 2009202)
Leave the clocks alone so noon is when the sun is at the highest point of the day. Just change the times when school and work starts and stops twice a year.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 9/26/2025 9:21:46 AM (No. 2009216)
What do people do when they go to a different time zone ? How about NYS to Ca, which is a 3 hours difference. Millions of people do so every year. Some 'scientific' studies are bunk.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/26/2025 9:23:10 AM (No. 2009217)
Al year DST advocates are idiots. All they care about is "Muh extra hour of daylight."
They tried that silliness in 1974 and everyone hated it. It only lasted nine months before it was repealed.
Permanent daylight saving time makes already late winter sunrises one hour later. The sun wouldn’t rise before 8 a.m. where I live in WV for almost four months, between November and the end of February. The latest sunrise would happen at 8:43 am.
The farther north you live the later it would rise.
Just stick with standard time if you're going full time.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/26/2025 9:51:18 AM (No. 2009236)
I think Trump caused it.
Come to think of it, that could be a bumper sticker or t shirt. No need to inquire further. Victims need search no further.
An economic system that makes me get out of bed - no matter where the sun is or isn't - is unjust.
It interferes with my drinking too.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 9/26/2025 10:21:43 AM (No. 2009258)
Heh...same thing every year...God decided on sunrise and sunset, so let it alone...governments thinking they are God is what causes so much trouble..
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/26/2025 10:39:43 AM (No. 2009269)
Without an accurate clock, how will I know when the expected asteroid will hit earth or flood the coastal cities?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/26/2025 10:55:53 AM (No. 2009276)
Where I lived in New York, it was one of the most overcast places in the country. My comment would be "The world is gray", and it really was. I remember going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark for months and the sun was usually behind a cloud. Falling back and springing ahead made no difference. On the flip side, Florida is much brighter. The cloud layer was lower in New York.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 9/26/2025 11:09:15 AM (No. 2009284)
If this were true than everybody flying cross continent would be having strokes. There would no longer be any pilots or flight attendants, So, how much money do these people touting this want?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
chumley 9/26/2025 11:29:17 AM (No. 2009299)
Seems like just more "study" induced panic. Changing the clocks is annoying and I'm all in favor of stopping that foolishness, but I doubt anyone is dying from it.
I would even look at a 10 hour day with each hour broken down into 100 minutes and each minute a hundred seconds. We could call it a metric day.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 9/26/2025 11:50:30 AM (No. 2009316)
Hogwash. This is just so much horse manure. I am absolutely amazed at how worked up folks get over this nothingburger.
Daylight savings time is convenient, I like it very much.
Proceed with the hate, I don't care.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Kafka2 9/26/2025 12:53:21 PM (No. 2009358)
Starting DST at the spring equinox and ending it at fall equinox made some sense because it covered the half of the year with the longest hours of sunlight. But, start DST weeks earlier and ending it weeks later means children are having to go school in the dark for a greater part of the year. This puts the children at added risk and the time changes are an annoyance to everyone.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/26/2025 1:02:48 PM (No. 2009364)
"Could" being the operative word.
Anyone that fragile that is at risk due to the DSL time change is at risk from a lot more than that. And they better not fly cross country.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Harlowe 9/26/2025 1:12:03 PM (No. 2009368)
Using temporary travel zone time changes as an example causing an individual’s demise to challenge Daylight Savings time is absurd and brings to mind the old adage, “From the ridiculous to the sublime.” (“In life, things that are noble and magnificent are never far from things that are trivial and laughable. “) Health issues due to DST over an expanse of time differ from the immediacy of next-day or near-term accidents or injuries and, further, insults people who have honest/real problems with DST in one form or another and is regrettable bringing to ind the Scripture's teaching, “You shall know them by their fruit.”
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 9/26/2025 3:43:08 PM (No. 2009424)
I don't know if it will give me a stroke, but it darn sure irritates me.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mifla 9/27/2025 8:26:57 AM (No. 2009660)
It is that time of year again.
1. Change the clocks.
2. Complain about changing the clocks.
3. Read about politicians submitting bills to stop changing the clocks.
4. Bills never come up for a vote.
5. Repeat when it is time to change the clocks.
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Here we go again. Daylight Savings Time versus Standard Time: Officially, “Standard Time Act of 1918” – Introduced in the Senate by William M. Calder (R-NY) - Signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson (D) on March 19, 1918 – Effective March 19, 1918 -- A January 2025 Gallop poll indicated 40 percent favor DST, 48 percent favor Standard Tiime the whole year, 19 percent favor keeping current practice changing time twice a year. Apology to William Shakespeare: “Will no one rid us of this tiresome, troublesome nuisance?”