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> True, the twice-annual time changes — you know the drill: spring forward, fall back — are annoying and associated with some tangible consequences, such as an increase in traffic accidents because of sleep deprivation. But to be honest, those consequences are pretty minor. One estimate is that they only amount to about 30 extra traffic deaths per year in a country of 335 million people.

Is more than that, and is not just traffic. How many deaths would be caused by losing losing a few minutes of light in summer?

You should move to DST like lives depend on it. Because they actually do.



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