'Lock the Clock' and Making America Healthy Again

Advocates of ending the seasonal clock switching between standard time and daylight saving time could find themselves a new home within the GOP’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, as awareness grows about the negative health consequences of “falling back” and “springing forward” each year.

As people nationwide prepare to push their clocks back one hour on Sunday, Nov. 2, policymakers and health experts are ramping up the debate as to whether to “lock the clock” on either fall’s standard time or the spring and summer’s daylight saving time.