ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s one of the most heated debates every year: Should we mess with the clocks or keep being bothered with changing them twice a year?
Daylight saving time is geared to provide more daylight in the evenings during warmer months, so many want that system year-round as opposed to switch back to standard time in the fall.
If we kept daylight saving time year-round, sunrises and sunsets in the summer would go unchanged. Currently with daylight saving time, Central Florida’s latest sunset during the summer is just before 8:30 p.m.
The issue would occur in the morning. If we didn’t fall back in early November, the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8 a.m. during the middle of winter. We would have a little more daylight in the evening in the winter if we kept daylight saving time for the entire year.
On the flip side, if we observed standard time all year, a lot of your summer evening activities would fall in darkness. The sun would come up much earlier, though, with the earliest sunrise at 5:27 a.m. in the middle of summer.
The latest summer sunset would be 7:27 p.m.
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The time change, while inconvenient, allows us to “save” the daylight in the summer months and prevents an extremely late sunrise in the middle of winter.
So maybe changing the clocks just twice per year isn’t that big of a deal. You decide.
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