Anti Daylight Savings
The clocks have just been set back for this year's annual daylight savings. The days are starting to get colder and it's getting darker earlier. Now that I’ve set back my clock, I’ve come to the conclusion that daylight savings isn’t all that necessary. I mean, who really wants to reset their clock twice a year?
I’ve always found daylight savings to be confusing, and I know many others are probably feeling this way too. I don’t think it serves an important purpose. I prefer long nights and prefer it to get darker later. As a result, switching back the clocks right now was not in my favor.
Along with that, something else I often find annoying is when people don’t set back their clocks. It gets confusing to know if that clock is actually telling the time, or if it’s an hour behind or ahead. For example, the day after daylight savings time, the clock next to my bed was not set to the correct time. So I woke up like normal, and I immediately panicked thinking I had overslept. I had thought I was going to be late because my clock was an hour ahead. Eventually, I realized all my panic was for nothing, which I found super annoying at the time.
Not only does daylight savings make the clocks confusing, but it also messes with my sleep schedule. Though that one extra hour of sleep once a year is nice, in the spring, losing an hour is the most infuriating thing ever. I don’t know about others, but I for one find it really annoying.
Additionally, I find that when the sun starts to set at 4:30, it makes me feel unmotivated to do things, such as finishing homework after sports practice or after dinner. I often don’t have much free time after school, so I need to be productive in order to get good sleep that night and feel good the next day. And though some people may enjoy the change, I think it’s just confusing.
If daylight savings was stopped, I think it would resolve a lot of confusion. Many states already don’t have daylight savings so it wouldn’t be a large change. If anything, without losing an hour of sleep in March, you’d probably wake up feeling more refreshed and less tired than in past years.
In conclusion, I think if daylight saving was stopped, it would resolve a lot of confusion as well as conflict in our community.
