What Really Happens to Our Brains When We're Sleep Deprived? A Neurologist Explains

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Given that most people are chronically sleep deprived, often by choice

because they stay up late to watch TV and then get up early for whatever, and given it is only one hour, I don't understand why so many people freak out over the change of time twice a year.

I do think we start DST too early and end it too late. But one hour? Do people who are complaining so vociferously NEVER cross a time zone? The rule of thumb about crossing time zones is that it takes one day for each hour/time zone crossed. So everyone really ought to be up to snuff by Monday. Tuesday at the latest. I keep on seeing bullshit that people are disoriented for weeks, which is utter nonsense.

One day. One freaking day. And it's on a day that most people don't need to go to work. So feel sorry for those of us on shift work, but if you work a daytime job Monday through Friday, just get over it. Which you should by Monday, anyway.

Jeez.