-"In the dead of winter, sunrise might not happen until close to 9 a.m., which means "young people who are going to school are going to have to do so in pure darkness," and that has potential health implications, Mak said.

The light people are exposed to in the morning stabilizes the body's circadian rhythm — the natural 24-hour internal clock that regulates sleep-wake cycles and other biological processes.

"[It] gives us better mood and better energy. So we're going to see an amplification of disturbed nighttime sleep, reduced total sleep time," said Mak, clinical vice-president of the Canadian Sleep Society."-

Its one friggin hour. So people are going to get so much morning sun if its perm st over dst. the only thing I see here is think of the children but you know society determines the start and stop time of the school day. Honsetly the whole thing is silly as we are the ones deciding when to get up and start things. rather than dst how about we just change our schedules when we want to.