Students will have an additional hour to rid themselves of a hangover this Sunday, when time turns back 60 minutes for the end of daylight-saving time.

In a motion by the House of Representatives recently, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed. In 2007, DST will be extended another four to five weeks. It will continue from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November.

Supporters of the extension have said it should save the equivalent of around 10,000 barrels of oil per day.

Energy conservation is the primary argument for DST.

Residential electricity needed in the evening hours is dependent both on when the sun sets and the time most people go to bed.

U.S. Department of Transportation studies have shown that with an extra hour of light each day, the electricity usage of this county is 1 percent less each day DST is in effect.
Many people think DST was created for farmers, but that is untrue. In fact, people working in agriculture usually do not agree with it because the animals don’t observe it, while the world around them does.

On the Mt. Hood Community College campus, there are many clocks that need to be changed twice a year.

Pam Benjamin, executive assistant to the president of MHCC, assumes that all departments take care of their own clocks, because that’s what she does.

Supervisors for custodial and maintenance could not be reached for comment on their possible participation in clock changes.

Daylight-saving time, otherwise known as DST or summer time, is described as “a system intended to ‘save’ daylight,” in Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia (www.wikipedia.org/).

The official time is adjusted forward one hour in most temperate regions, and stays that way through the spring and summer.

During World War II, daylight-saving time was put into force to conserve resources. Then, until 1966, states could decide for themselves whether or not to observe DST. The U.S. Federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 mandated when daylight-saving time would begin and end.

Currently, daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April (turn clocks ahead one hour), and ends at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October (turn clocks back one hour).