--- title: Daylight Saving Time: How Much Sleep Do You Lose? description: Use our interactive calculator to find out how much sleep you've lost in your lifetime to daylight saving time. canonical: https://time.com/4255364/daylight-saving-time-sleep-lost/ author: David Johnson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-11T20:25:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:00.734Z og:title: How Much Sleep Have You Lost to Daylight Saving Time? og:description: Use our interactive calculator to find out og:url: https://time.com/4255364/daylight-saving-time-sleep-lost/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ed702654106a71b/69888ab7cf40a8b09ec42610/daylight-savings-lose-sleep-over-time.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: daylight-savings-lose-sleep-over-time og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Much Sleep Have You Lost to Daylight Saving Time? twitter:description: Use our interactive calculator to find out twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ed702654106a71b/69888ab7cf40a8b09ec42610/daylight-savings-lose-sleep-over-time.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See How Much Sleep You've Lost to Daylight Saving Time Over Your Lifetime by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Mar 11, 2016 8:25 PM UTC  Getty Images by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Mar 11, 2016 8:25 PM UTC [Daylight Saving Time (DST)](http://time.com/4255588/daylight-saving-time-2016-march-13-spring-forward/) begins this Sunday, March 13, which means you can look forward to a particularly rough morning on Monday. The average American loses 40 minutes of shuteye each year on the night after DST begins, according to sleep researchers at the University of Michigan (most Americans don’t lose any sleep on the actual “spring forward” night because they can sleep in on Sunday morning). While you may think you make up for that lost time when we “fall back” later in the year, researchers found that survey participants didn’t sleep significantly more when they gained an hour in October…which brings the typical American to that cumulative loss of 40 minutes of sleep per year. [The researchers’ report](http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl9451317.pdf), published in 2009, used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ [American Time Use Survey](http://www.bls.gov/tus/) to analyze the sleeping patterns of 14,310 working Americans. See how those lost minutes have added up over the course of your lifetime: **_Read more:_** [_4 Tricks to Make an Easy Switch to Daylight Saving Time_](http://time.com/4252688/daylight-saving-time-2016/) **Methodology** The above calculation takes the number of years you’ve lived since 1966 (when DST was first instituted) and multiplies it by 40 minutes to find total sleep lost. The Bureau of Labor Statistics takes a nationally representative sample of people over age 15 for the the American Time Use Survey, but the report authors considered it reasonable to assume a similar amount of lost sleep for those younger than 15, starting at birth. 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