Daylight Savings Time is the practice of shifting clocks forward one hour in spring and back in fall to extend evening daylight. Starting in March and ending in November, this ritual aims to boost energy conservation and evening recreation, but is heavily debated due to health disruptions, such as reduced sleep.

It has been a debate for many years whether daylight savings proves itself to be as beneficial as studies claim. This recent time change has brought forward the opinions of many students that felt negatively affected by the disruption of their schedule, especially in their sleeping habits.

“I think daylight savings is pretty useless. Most people already don’t like it and the time change just means people wake up feeling cranky. The time change really leaves people feeling disoriented,” Lexie “The Big L” Flores, a Mark Keppel senior, said.

“I have always thought that daylight savings is an odd thing. I can’t get by the fact that we lose an hour and gain an hour once every year,” Beverly “Big Bev” Alexandra, another senior at Keppel, said.

While daylight saving time was designed to extend evening daylight, modern research suggests the biannual disruption does more harm than good, impacting health and sleep. Overall opinion is shifting toward abolishing the time change in favor of a permanent schedule. Essentially, the human body suffers more from the disruption than it gains from the extra hour of light.