02/05/2025

Sleep-medicine Coalition Pushes for Permanent Standard Time

A group of associations hopes to take advantage to end DST

By and large, Americans dislike changing their clocks twice a year for Daylight Saving Time (DST)—one survey has found that 62 percent U.S. residents would like to see it done away with. With a new administration in the White House, a coalition of sleep-medicine associations believes it may have an opportunity for (one final clock) change.

Since 2020, the Coalition for Permanent Standard Time has pushed on the state and federal levels for the abolition of Daylight Saving Time. According to Dr. Karin Johnson, co-chair of the coalition and member of the advocacy committee for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the initiative was a product of clinical research demonstrating that Americans were healthier on standard time. What it calls “circadian misalignment” due to Daylight Saving Time makes it harder for people to sleep and is correlated with cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disease.

Organizing multiple groups—including AASM, the Sleep Research Society, the American College of Chest Physicians and others—into the coalition helped strengthen its advocacy mission.

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