By: Nehemiah Perez
California has been fighting the daylight saving time change for multiple years at this point. People have time and time again, no pun intended, voted for the time change to stop. There are other states, like Arizona and Hawaii who have permanent clocks year-round. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) will allow for more time spent awake during the light all year. If we don’t gain an hour in the fall, then we will have more time during the day. It might be dark in the morning, but it wouldn’t get dark so early in the winter.
Not only will people be up while the sun is, but everyone’s circadian rhythms wouldn’t be thrown off twice a year anymore. We have just experienced that change of PST (Pacific Standard Time) to PDT, and no one can deny that losing an hour sucks. But after we all adjust, we all love the sun and long days. We all love the warmth that comes with the spring and the summer, and now that we are on PDT we should just stay on it.
5 years ago, in 2018, California voters voted for the time change to come to an end. Which only made many people question what happened when the clocks changed yet AGAIN. However this change of the clocks occurred because even though the people voted the time change out, the bill still needed to pass through the senate and House if any real change was to occur.
In 2023 another bill came along stating the same “Don’t change our clocks” proposition, however instead of the 2018 proposition to get RID of PDT and stay on PST, it was to stay on PDT. The people once again voted to keep the clocks and stay on PDT, asking to stop the change of clocks and ruining of sleep schedules and when our bodies feel hungry, and yet again, it was met with the same passing and no change happening.
Not only did everyone vote it out, but in all honesty, there is no reason for us to change the times back and forth, because daylight saving was initially created for agriculture and coal conservation during war. We are no longer an agriculture based or society at war, the work day would not be affected by keeping the clocks on PDT. Also, only one third of the world changes their clocks with daylight saving, so it shows that there are even more communities (even agricultural ones) than just Arizona and Hawaii who can live without changing their clocks.
We need to stop changing the time. We need to stop changing our sleep schedules. We need to stop leaving things as they are even after they were voted on. We need to put an end to the disruption that is spring forward and fall back.
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