Students have a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time (DST).
DST was originally adopted by the United States in 1918 as a way to make the days more productive when the sun was going down and rising earlier.
“I strongly dislike daylight savings because my sleep gets thrown out of whack,” Ethan Jacobs, sophomore, said. “I like it lighter in the morning when I’m waking up and darker at night when I’m trying to sleep.”
Students also said that they did not like how dark it is when they wake up in the mornings.
“I don’t like daylight savings because when I wake up it’s frickin’ dark, and I lost an hour of sleep,” Abigail Custer, sophomore, said.
As a solution to the complaints of US citizens, the “Lock The Clock” bill was proposed by Senator Rick Scott. The “Lock The Clock” bill is designed to eliminate changing clocks twice a year. If this bill is approved, then the United States would adopt daylight savings time as the national year-round time.
“I feel like I could get used to it, so if it became permanent it wouldn’t affect my everyday life,” Jacobs said.
Some people enjoy the time change.
“I like daylight savings because you can do more outside activities,” Allan Monzon, sophomore, said. “I prefer it being darker in the mornings because I get more sleep, and the birds don’t chirp and wake me up.”
As of right now, there is no official decision on making the time permanent, and the time will fall back an hour on November 2 and return to Eastern Standard Time.
