Talking Sleep Season 5 | Episode 5
Permanent standard time advocacy
Dr. Karin Johnson, GUEST
It’s that time of year again when we spring forward and set our clocks ahead one hour. Whether we should continue to change our clocks twice per year is an ongoing topic of debate, and legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to make daylight saving time permanent. Here to give more insight on the science of clock change and discuss the debate over daylight saving time and standard time is Karin Johnson, MD.
Dr. Johnson is a professor of neurology at UMass Chan School of Medicine-Baystate and medical director of the Baystate Health Regional Sleep Program in Springfield, Massachusetts. She is vice president of Save Standard Time, a volunteer nonprofit advocating for permanent standard time. She is also a member of the AASM Advocacy Committee and sleep section chair of the American Academy of Neurology.
Episode Resources
- AASM | Daylight saving time: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement
- AASM | American Academy of Sleep Medicine opposes permanent daylight saving time bill | May 23, 2022
- American Medical Association | Elimination of seasonal time changes and establishment of permanent standard time H-440.802
- NSF | Permanent standard time: a position statement from the National Sleep Foundation
- SRS | It is time to abolish the clock change and adopt permanent standard time in the United States: a Sleep Research Society position statement
- Society for Research on Biological Rhythms | Why should we abolish daylight saving time?
- Society for Research on Biological Rhythms | Daylight saving time presskit
- Save Standard Time | savestandardtime.com
- Save Standard Time | The Science of Clock Change video series
- Sleep Education | Daylight saving time
