On Sunday, Arizonans, Hawaiians, and residents of several U.S. territories happily went about their days with no need to worry about a task that annoys most Americans; we didn't have to change our clocks to accommodate the annual switch to daylight saving time. And we won't have to switch back to standard time in the fall because that's what our clocks display year-round. A majority of our countrymen would like to join us in benevolently neglecting our clocks' time settings.
Americans Want To Stop Changing Their Clocks
"As the March 9 switch to daylight saving time (DST) approaches in the U.S., the majority of Americans (54%) say they are ready to do away with the practice," Gallup reported last week. That's a huge shift from the 1990s, when almost three-quarters of Americans thought changing their clocks twice a year was a fine idea. This is an area of rare bipartisan agreement, with majorities of both Democrats and Republicans eager to ditch clock changes.
