Daylight Savings Takes a Toll on the Huskies

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By Curtis Tallmadge

Husky Herald Reporter

It’s that time of the year again, the time where everyone is upset that we have to set our clocks one hour forward. It is daylight savings time.

  This can be a very stressful time for everyone alike, losing an hour in your day can throw off your entire schedule if you are not ready for it.

  It can ruin your sleep schedule if you are unprepared for the change, you could end up not being able to sleep the full eight hours that you need in one night.

  The worst thing that could happen is that you may be unaware of the change if you are not watching the news or hearing about it from a friend that knows when it’s coming, or maybe you just complete forgot about it at first, you end up getting up and going to work or school an hour before anyone else.

 Another terrible thing is having to go through your entire house and set all your clocks ahead one hour which can be a pain. So what are some of the students at Port Huron Northern opinions on daylight savings time?

  “Daylight savings really threw my sleep schedule off, I couldn't sleep very well the night of setting the clocks forward and still had to wake up at the same time, I think I ended up only getting three or four hours of sleep that night,” Tim Klaus (‘17).

  “I had to run through my house and change all the clocks by myself, I messed up on a couple of them and had to sit there even longer trying to get the correct time on them again,” Andrew Adolph (‘16)

  “I didn't mind losing the hour so much, I think it’s nice that the sun is out later at night now for this time of the year, it means spring is just around the corner and it can stop being cold out,” Russ Tenbusch (‘15).

  In conclusion, daylight savings can be a stressful time for students for the reason that it can throw our sleep schedules out of sync if you aren't prepared for it, but it also means that the days are getting longer and the sun stays out much later.