A team of doctors in the US has said daylight saving time should be ‘eliminated’ because it can damage people’s health. They said shifting the clocks back and forth every year leads to a rise in the number of heart attacks and strokes and can affect children’s brain development. Young children, the elderly, women and people with cancer appear to be more susceptible to the effects... 

On March 13 Americans will, in their tolerant nature, acquiesce once again to a government initiated (and hardly popular) loss of one hour, and the setting of clocks out of sync with our planet’s celestial rhythm. After an earlier (unpopular) 1918 trial of Daylight Saving Time and its later repeal in 1919, it was re-enacted nationwide under Nixon under the “Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy...