This past Sunday was a dreaded day for many as we turned the clocks forward for daylight saving time, resulting in us losing an hour of sleep. The benefit to daylight saving time is that sunrise will be an hour later and evenings will continue to stay brighter for longer. Yet, changing the clocks twice a year can be a controversial topic as a great deal of people are opposed to it. No one can come up with a solution that everyone agrees on.

Daylight saving time started in the United States as a way to conserve energy during World War I and then became a national standard in the 1960s. The idea is that us Americans have more daylight hours in the summer evenings, making this time more productive. There are only two states in the nation, Arizona and Hawaii, that do not observe daylight saving time. Other territories that do not observe DST include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A 2019 poll concluded that only 31% of Americans wanted to move daylight saving time to be all year around and that 28% wanted to keep switching back and forth between daylight saving and standard time. The remaining 41% of the populations actually wanted to be on standard time all year around. Although 51% of Americans favor daylight saving time, they claim that they do not want to be on that time frame for the entire year. In addition to this, only 13% of Americans say that moving the clocks forward is a major disruption while the rest of the population states that it does not have an effect on them. If we can ever come to a conclusion about what to do about this situation, it will be surprising and life altering, yet a miracle all the same.