“[Daylight Saving Time] is a bad idea, because we’re moving away from our natural need to synchronize our internal clocks with the sun,” explains Patricia Lakin-Thomas, a professor of biology at York University. “Springing forward” in March causes issues in and of itself, with the disorientation causing us to be “a little bit physiologically disorganized” in the short term, explains Lakin-Thomas. But it also makes us “chronically circadian desynchronized” throughout the half of the year in which we experience Daylight Saving Time. This preference was indeed part of the reason Daylight Saving Time began, says Lakin-Thomas. “Daylight saving time has great press.