Changing season brings end of daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST) occurs twice every year during the summer and fall months. On Nov. 7, the clocks are set back one hour in what is called “fall back” and on March 7, the clocks are set forward one hour in what is called “spring forward.” All states observe daylight saving time with the exception of  Hawaii and Arizona, both of which keep standard time throughout the year.  Dayli...

Daylight saving time ended Nov. 7 this year, and everyone has received an extra hour of  sleep. There will be little argument for more sleep. So let’s focus more on the “spring-forward” start of Daylight saving. We will lose that same hour of sleep in the Spring. But what do we gain? Let’s count the benefits.  The extra hour of light comes in the narrow window of time when most people retu...

Every year during the first Sunday of March and November, daylight saving time (DST) leaves many students recalibrating their sleep schedules and wondering why DST still exists. As children, we were taught that this unnecessary inconvenience was simply something we had to endure because it conserved electricity and helped farmers. While it might have conserved energy 100 years ago, society...