Denver Newsroom, Jul 10, 2022 / 13:56 pm
It may be an alarming proposal for some, but Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to make daylight saving time a thing of the past.
Obrador submitted a bill on July 5 that, if approved, would allow Mexicans to dispense with changing their clocks twice a year.
Obrador’s health secretary, Jorge Alcocer, explained the requirement to spring forward and fall back (or is it spring back and fall forward?) is not beneficial to people’s health.
Studies have linked changing the time back and forth with sleep deprivation, foggy thinking, and an increase in depression, heart attacks, crime, childhood obesity, and traffic accidents.