By Tate Smith
Whether it’s an hour of sleep gained or an hour of sleep lost, daylight saving has been around for over 100 years. A movement among lawmakers to get rid of it in the next year has some Bluffton students all for it.
Daylight saving has been around since the 1918, long before any technology such as digital alarm clocks and smartphones were even invented. According to Web Exhibits Interactive Museum of Science, daylight saving was so unpopular when it first came out it, Congress overrode President’s Wilson’s veto.
It is still a issue for many, including some Bluffton students.It affects everyone in different ways, whether it’s losing and gaining sleep or messing up the time the sun sets.
“ I am impartial about daylight saving time I see the idea behind it, but it doesn’t really affect me like everyone else,” said senior Adam Byram.
Members of the Bluffton community are also aware of how the change affects their internal clocks.
“When we lose an hour of sleep, it can take a whole week for our circadian rhythms to get back on track,”senior Grace Zachrich said.
For some people it really doesn’t mean much to them.
Tyler Hartsock who says, “I am impartial; I never really ever notice it like everyone else does.”
For some people that lose or gain of an hour really has an affect on them and for others it really means nothing.
Hartsock sees a positive in getting rid of daylight saving time.
“We would keep that extra hour we lose every November,” Hartsock said.
Byram mentioned one negative:
“Both the sunrise and sunset will be a different times which could lead to confusion without changing the hours,” said Byram. “Ohio could possibly have 9 a.m. sunrises.”
Another benefit could be people no longer forgetting about the time change and showing up to places late by an hour.
Grace Zachrich
“No one would be late or early to functions because they forget about the time change,” Zachrich said.
At the end of the day, there are different feelings about daylight saving. Zachrich talks about it being an outdated system and what of doing things. Why Hartsock talked about it not really affecting us at all but saying we should probably get rid of it to make everything all one time.
“Yes in the grand scheme of things it would make the days seem more like the same year round no matter what time the sunsets or rises,” Byram said. “Scrap it.”
