Articles on CTV News, Yahoo and Business in Vancouver focused on concern that daylight saving time is no longer doing the job it was meant to do. “When you do a cost-benefit analysis of shifting clocks forward and back, it just doesn’t add up,” said UBC economics professor Werner Antweiler.
He added that there’s research that shows the time shift leads to higher traffic and workplace incidents and lowered productivity in the days following the shift.
Similar articles in Bloomberg, MSN, The Province and News 1130 mentioned a 1996 UBC study which found that accident rates in the U.S. rose by 17 per cent on the Monday after the time shift.
