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Sleep scientist warns Congress is getting the science "exactly backwards" on permanent daylight saving time. Dr. Wendy Troxel tells Fox News Digital that permanent DST would force Americans to wake up "in the middle of their biological night" every single day, creating chronic misalignment between internal clocks and the external world. The U.S. tried this once before in the 1970s. It lasted less than a year before being repealed after morning car crashes spiked and parents revolted over kids commuting to school in total darkness.

Sleep scientist warns Congress is getting the science "exactly backwards" on permanent daylight saving time. Dr. Wendy Troxel tells Fox News Digital that permanent DST would force Americans to wake up "in the middle of their biological night" every single day, creating chronic misalignment between internal clocks and the external world. The U.S. tried this once before in the 1970s. It lasted less than a year before being repealed after morning car crashes spiked and parents revolted over kids commuting to school in total darkness.

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