Could This Be Our Last Daylight Savings?

November 6 at 2 a.m America will set its clocks back for what may be the last time. A growing movement in the U.S to stop switching clocks back and forward every spring and fall is starting to stir up yet another debate about time. The most recent poll from Monmouth University shows that most U.S citizens would get rid of the twice-yearly time change, at about 61%. Only 13% of people would like to keep standard time. Lawmakers are now catching up to all this talk about time. This year the U.S Senate passed it to make daylight saving time permanent, but has a while to go before it becomes a law. The American academy of sleep medicine supports the opposite switch to permanent standard time. Research says that our bodies function best with more sunlight in the morning. Sleep experts favor permanent standard time but would rather switch between the two instead of having permanent daylight saving time. These sleep experts also stated that when people rise in the darkness, hormones like cortisol may not be readily available, so they might feel drowsy. The night daylight savings can lead people to go to bed later which can delay the body’s production of melatonin. Many of these experts said some people just never adapt to daylight saving time. It's almost like they’re jet-lagged for eight months of the year. These health risks most likely will not make people want daylight saving time 24/7.