Daylight saving time starts this weekend in most states and territories (barring Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory), meaning we’ll turn our clocks forward and lose an hour on Sunday morning. 

Flinders University researchers have carried out one of the most comprehensive investigations into the suggestion that daylight saving time (DST) is damaging to our health. 

Clinton is joined by sleep expert Reece Kemp from FHMRI Sleep Health, who explored the late-stage effects of DST on numerous markers of sleep timing, revealing that they found no significant evidence that DST showed a long-term loss in sleep, or impaired sleep health and daytime functioning.

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