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Another problem with daylight saving time: The time change raises your risk of hitting deer on the road

  • Written by Tom Langen, Professor of Biology, Clarkson University
imageThe likelihood of hitting a deer is highest during morning and evening twilight.Patrick Pleul/Picture alliance via Getty Images

Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 7, 2021, and most of us will be setting our clocks back an hour. There is a long-running debate about the benefit of the time change, given how it disrupts...

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