ArticleRoyal Society open science2025
Assessing the best hour to start the day: an appraisal of seasonal daylight saving time.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of epidemiological studies into daylight-saving time & health identifying beneficial & adverse effects.European journal of epidemiology · 2026Pooled it
- The sum of absolute circadian shifts: Questioning the metric linking daylight saving time policy to stroke and obesity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health in England: population based retrospective cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Article
- Circadian-informed modeling predicts regional variation in obesity and stroke outcomes under different permanent US time policies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Assessing the best hour to start the day: an appraisal of seasonal daylight saving time.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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Abstract
We provide an evidence-based position on the seasonal regulation of clocks daylight saving time (DST) that challenges position papers by sleep associations against the practice. We review the acute, short-term impact and the chronic, long-term impact of DST in the context of the changing ambient light conditions that characterize seasons at Extratropical latitudes. We highlight the association between DST, human physiology (photoreceptive mechanisms) and human daily life. We offer a perspective on the possible scenarios should clock regulations be abandoned.
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