He contributed a guest column for the Western Standard leading up to the municipal election in October when switching to permanent DST was up for a referendum vote by Albertans. “When we go out of daylight savings time, our bodies move back into our more natural standard time.”Īntle has long advocated doing away with the tradition of changing our clocks twice a year. Through October our body’s schedule starts realizing it’s darker longer and it becomes harder for us to get up and going in the day,” said Antle in an interview with the Western Standard. “The circadian clock controls easily measurable behavioural and physiological processes,” said Antle’s U of C website. Michael Antle, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Calgary (U of C), “we will all feel very well rested come Monday.”Īntle studies the neurobiology of circadian rhythms in mammals on a cellular level. Daylight Savings Time (DST) ends this weekend and according to Dr.
