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Here’s your twice-yearly reminder to mess with your clocks this weekend: Turn them an hour because daylight savings time is ending.

The shift takes a physical, mental and even financial toll. That’s why there’s a growing movement to “lock the clock” — to stop the twice yearly move forward and back and just stick with one time system. 

In Minnesota, the House and Senate approved legislation to make daylight saving time permanent — that’s the time we are on right now. That’s a rare show of bipartisan support.

Dr. Kannan Ramar, a sleep medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic's Center for Sleep Medicine and the president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, joined host Cathy Wurzer to tell us more about the science of sleep.

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Here’s your twice-yearly reminder to mess with your clocks this weekend. Turn them an hour because daylight savings time is ending. The shift takes a physical, mental and even financial toll. That’s why there’s a growing movement to “lock the clock” – to stop the twice yearly move forward and back and just stick with one time system. 

Here’s your twice-yearly reminder to mess with your clocks this weekend. Turn them an hour because Daylight Savings Time is ending.

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