Daylight Saving Time Ends Soon, But Will This Be Final Clock Change?

And here we go again. Soon it'll be time to reset those clocks and try to get adjusted to the "new" time.

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So, I'm interjecting my own opinion here, but I honestly don't understand why we're still doing this twice annual time-changing fiasco.

The idea to "conserve" an hour of daylight actually goes all the way back to 1895 when New Zealand entomologist, George Hudson, first presented the concept.

After considering the idea that America "wasted" a number of daylight hours sleeping when we could be working, it was finally declared law in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, however it was repealed seven months later.

The idea was then relaunched in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but the change wasn't official until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson signed law making the start and end dates of Daylight Saving Time uniform across the country.

Supporters of the idea thought that changing the clocks would help America save money on energy bills, but one research piece showed that it actually cost us around 1% more so that argument doesn't hold water.

Because there's obviously not much merit in the idea, why do we keep doing it? I still contend that "we should just pick a time and stick with it."

And it would appear that my sentiments mirror the majority of Americans. A poll conducted by YouGov shows that 59% of Americans would like for Daylight Saving Time to stay permanent.

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According to an article by usatoday.com, even President Trump supports "the idea
of doing away with the time changes, but as of March he wasn't sure there is enough consensus."

Quoting the President from Truth Social, USA Today writes, "The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate daylight saving time. Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation."

We do know that Louisiana did get proactive with the possibility and passed a bill that would make it legal to stop the time changes on a state level if the legislation passed on a Federal level.

It's got to be one of the first times our state has actually outrun the Feds, and most were happy to see them act accordingly, even if it appears it was for naught.

Regardless of anyone's sentiments on the matter, very soon we'll be setting those clocks back again as Daylight Saving Time is set to end at 2:00 am on Sunday, November 2, and will resume on Sunday, March 8, 2026.