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The health effects of daylight saving time

This Sunday, clocks will jump back by an hour, as daylight saving time will officially end Nov. 3 at 2 a.m. While the switching of the clock may earn people an extra hour of sleep, Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins studies have found that daylight saving time can actually have some costly mental health effects.