The Best Things To Help Cope With Daylight Savings Time

You probably noticed by now that the days are getting longer. And while we’re all basking in the fact that it’s not dark when we leave work, it’s time for one of the more inconvenient parts of spring: Daylight Savings Time.

What the end of DST means in the fall is that we all have to relive an hour of our lives, Groundhog Day-style with an extra hour of sleep, but the start of DST come springtime is a mandatory, middle-of-the-night, hour-long trip in the Delorean to the future. “Spring forward” may seem like an optimistic approach to losing an entire hour of your day (more time in the sun, yeah, yeah) but getting your body and mind used to the time change can be an adjustment. Here are some things to implement into your routine so as to not get too bogged down in the chronology of it all.

Wake-up lights like the Philips Somneo or the Casper Glow can really help your body ease into losing that precious hour of sleep because it may still be dark when you wake up. You should also utilize the sundown feature to hopefully recoup that missing time on the backend by going to bed a little bit earlier and having the dimming light gradually lull you to sleep.

Read more at The Daily Beast.