The long term impact of Daylight Saving Time regulations in daily life at several circles of latitude.

ABSTRACT: We analyze large scale (N ~ 10000) time use surveys in United States, Spain, Italy, France and Great Britain to ascertain seasonal variations in the sleep/wake cycle and the labor cycle after daylight saving time regulations have stood up for at least forty years. That is, not the usual search for the impact of the biannual transitions, but a search for how industrialized societies have answered to DST regulations at different circles of latitude. Results show that the labor cycle is equally distributed through seasons if measured in local time. It is an everyday experience which is a major outcome of DST. The sleep/wake cycle displays disturbances punctuated by solar events: sunrise, sunset and noon. In week-ends, under free preferences, sleep onset delays in summer, opposing to the regul

SUBMITTER: Martin-Olalla JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6895179 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature