Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins this Sunday, March 13, which means you can look forward to a particularly rough morning on Monday.If your age is 65 years old,
Including this year, you've lost 33 hours and 20 minutes of sleep to Daylight Saving Time.
The average American loses 40 minutes of shuteye each year on the night after DST begins, according to sleep researchers at the University of Michigan (most Americans don’t lose any sleep on the actual “spring forward” night because they can sleep in on Sunday morning). While you may think you make up for that lost time when we “fall back” later in the year, researchers found that survey participants didn’t sleep significantly more when they gained an hour in October…which brings the typical American to that cumulative loss of 40 minutes of sleep per year. The researchers’ report, published in 2009, used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey to analyze the sleeping patterns
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