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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Kate Ng

This is what turning back the clocks can do to your health

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Each year, at 2am on the second Sunday in March, the clocks go forward in the US which signals that beginning of Daylight Saving Time.

Although the day that the clocks go back in the fall is sometimes considered the “good one” as people get an extra hour in bed, the system of changing the clocks twice a year can be controversial.

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