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Creating comfort: Tips for the ultimate power nap experience

It’s National Napping Day. Perfect for day after daylight saving time starts and spring break

Did you remember to move your clocks forward an hour Sunday morning, or Saturday night?

If not, you better move quickly or you’ll be late to work or the kids will be late getting to school. At least those not on spring break this week.

This was the tough one when it comes to the twice-yearly time changes. We all lost an hour of sleep with the arrival of daylight saving time, which makes National Napping Day perfect for today.

Here’s what to know.

Daylight saving time arrived at 2 a.m. March 9. Clocks moved forward one hour.

Daylight saving time will end and eastern time will resume on Nov. 2, 2025.

Switching to daylight saving time in the spring and standard time in the fall have generated strong opinions for years.

Changing the twice-yearly time change has proven difficult.

Trump seemed to come out in favor of doing away with the time change in a December social media post.

“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump wrote. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”

But days before the arrival of daylight saving time, Trump seemed less eager to make the change, calling daylight saving time “very much a fifty-fifty issue.”

“It’s something I can do, but a lot of people like it one way, a lot of people like it the other way,” Trump said.

Billionaire Elon Musk jumped into the daylight saving time debate last week with a poll on X, the social media platform he owns.

Musk asked X users what they preferred if the time change is canceled, an hour earlier or later.

More than 1.3 million people responded, with 58% saying later and 42% saying earlier.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., introduced legislation in January 2025 to “lock the clock” and end the time change.

The legislation would maintain daylight saving time year round. The bill has struggled to attract enough support, though. It cleared the Senate in 2022 but never passed the House.

As the debate continues, Americans can catch up on some much-needed sleep today.

It’s National Napping Day.

“Each year, National Napping Day recognizes our need the day following the return of daylight saving time,” according to the National Day Calendar’s website.

“Not only does the observance encourage a nap, it reminds us that there’s no shame in taking one either.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, benefits of taking a nap include:

Relaxation.

Less tiredness.

More alertness.

Better mood.

Improved performance, including quicker reaction time and better memory.

Whatever you do, don’t plan on snoozing for two to three hours.

Keep your nap short. Twenty to 30 minutes is ideal, the Mayo Clinic advised.

Avoid napping after 3 p.m. or it could make it harder to fall asleep at night.

Contributor: Zac Anderson, USA TODAY

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: National Napping Day related to daylight saving’s 2025, spring break

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How to make your naps more effective: Kettering Health

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by: Trey Brown

Posted: Mar 10, 2025 / 08:53 AM EDT

Updated: Mar 10, 2025 / 08:53 AM EDT

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — With daylight savings time making its presence felt, experts are offering tips to those reeling from the time shift.

March 10 is National Napping Day and Kettering Health is looking to help people maximize the effectiveness of their sleep.

Kettering Health says that ideally, to prepare for daylight savings time, one would adjust their sleep schedule by 15 to 20 minutes the week before. For those who didn’t do that though, napping could help fill the gap.

“Efficiency and productivity increase significantly when you’re well-rested,” said Dr. Sarah Hussain, a Sleep Medicine and Family Medicine specialist at Kettering Health, in a press release.

“If you’re not getting enough sleep at night, the body will crave sleep, and you will need a nap.”

That said, it’s advised that one should only take a nap if necessary, otherwise it could negatively impact the sleep schedule. So, if you got 7 to 8 hours of sleep this morning, a nap may not be the best option.

Kettering Health also says that shorter naps (10 to 20 minutes) are best and can give a burst of energy, increase alertness and help improve productivity.

The non-profit also said that napping to get through the “afternoon slump” isn’t a necessity.

Kettering Health calls it a natural thing that can be overcome by eating a lighter, healthier lunch, drinking water and stretching.

For more information on napping well, click here.

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