Heart Attacks, Car Crashes, And Bad Sleep: 4 Arguments For And Against BST

On Sunday, March 29, the clocks are set to go forward in the UK. 

It’s been that way since 1916, though we’ve experimented with sticking to “British Summer Time” (BST) for the whole year and following “double summer time” since. 

Some experts, though, say we should stop making people’s clocks jump fprward an hour in spring. For instance, the European Parliament has backed a proposal to get rid of daylight saving time (DST).

Here are some of the arguments for and against BST, sometimes also called “DST”:

Against...