Hey, it's Rosie from The Wirecutter Show, and this is a special bonus episode called How to Survive Daylight Saving Time.

This coming Sunday, March 9th, marks the start of daylight saving time, or DST.

The time of year, we spring ahead and advance our clocks forward one hour.

We spend the majority of our year in DST, and will be in DST all the way to November when we revert back to standard time.

For most people, these biannual time changes are simply part of life, minor

inconveniences. But there's a bit more to it than that. Scientists and researchers have studied

the effects of time change into DST and found it can negatively impact our health.

Kyra, the co-host of our show, has reported on sleep hygiene and, in particular, the things

you can do to prepare your body for the time shift and some tips on how best to adjust.

I'm going to talk with her all about it after a quick break.

We'll be right back.

Hello, Kyra. Hi. Kyra, I understand we're about to head into your least favorite part of the year.

Yeah, I really don't like this part of the year, which is when we start daylight saving time.

And it starts on March 9th at 2 a.m. local time this year.

So the saying is spring forward, fall back.

That means we're going to be losing an hour of sleep right when daylight savings starts, right? Right. But it's actually worse than that. Some

people kind of look forward to this time because the evenings are brighter and that's kind of fun in

the summer especially, but it does come at a cost. Studies have

shown that even something as slight as a one-hour time shift can disrupt our circadian rhythms,

which is basically just our body's internal 24-hour clock that follows the sun. This can lead to

jet lag type symptoms, and that's just because your body clock isn't aligning with the social

clock. So basically,

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