How Americans Really Feel About Changing The Clocks Twice A Year

With all the Halloween hoopla happening today, it might be easy to forget that something many Americans dread is also this weekend: the end of daylight saving time. It turns out, even that potential extra hour of sleep isn’t enough to make people happy about rolling the clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday.

According to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, only 12% of U.S. adults like the current system of changing the clocks twice a year. Nearly half (47%) are opposed to it, including 27% who are “strongly opposed,” while 40% are neutral.

For many Americans, this isn’t a welcome change, and if they were forced to choose, most would prefer to keep that extra hour of daylight in the evening.

Overall, 56% prefer to have year-round daylight saving time, which comes with less light in the morning and more in the evening, and 42% would like standard time all year, with more light in the morning and less in the evening.

That preference may have to do with being an early bird or a night owl. The poll finds that 40% consider themselves morning people, 37% feel they’re night people and 22% don’t identify either way.

Those who consider themselves night people tend to be much more partial to permanent daylight saving time, 61% of them say that would be their choice.

Morning people are almost evenly split, 49% prefer permanent daylight saving time and 50% would like permanent standard time.

Age also plays a part here, with 56% of young adults preferring late nights and older adults more likely to be morning people.

Younger Americans are less likely to care about the clock switch, as 51% of those under age 30 say they don’t care one way or the other.

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