Daylight saving time is thought to promote more outdoor activity by giving people an extra hour of sunshine in the evening prior to dusk.
But a new study says that’s just not so.
There’s no appreciable difference in people’s number of daily steps before and after a time change, according to Fitbit data drawn from 1,157 people in four U.S. states.
“Overall, changing times does not seem to be the public health benefit that some think that it is, at least in terms of activity levels,” senior researcher Jessilyn Dunn said in a news release. She’s an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
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