HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – When most of the nation “springs forward” at 2 a.m. on Sunday for the start of Daylight Saving Time, one big issue is dealing with getting that lost hour of sleep back.
We are creatures of habit and of rhythm, according to Dr. Kelly Waters, a sleep medicine physician with Spectrum Health. “You need to keep your rhythm,” she said during a Thursday appearance on WHTC’s “Wellspring” program. “If you suddenly lose an hour of sleep, and with Daylight Savings Time, it’s stolen from you, you need to work around that. You need to look for that other hour of sleep, and the best way is to see what your schedule is and schedule it in.”
We get that hour back on November 1st. The extended Daylight Saving Time federal law, which went into effect 13 years ago, was cosponsored by St. Joseph Republican Congressman Fred Upton.
