Time change gets mixed feedback

By Jillian Yalung
The Collegian

Shorter days and longer nights are now the norm, as Americans turned back their clocks an hour this past weekend, restoring them to standard time.

Around campus, students had mixed reaction to the annual time-change.

“Being that I have morning classes the time change is comforting because it makes nights seem longer, therefore giving me more time to sleep and study,” Yervant Hovanessian, a fourth-year business major, said.

Others said they like the change because it gives them an hour longer to sleep in the morning — and makes it more likely that the sun will be up when they awake.

“I like the ‘fall back’ change because you get an extra hour of sleep,” mass communication and journalism major Larissa Goosev said.

The time change also means an hour more for evening and nighttime activities.

“You gain an extra hour of your life for that night,” business major Joe Noel said. “I am a night person so the time change will let me enjoy my evenings just a little longer.”

Some students, however, said they will miss having another hour of daylight at the end of the day.
“I prefer the longer days — I tend to be more productive and active,” criminology major Jon Cope said.

Recreation and leisure studies major Joe Castillo agreed, and said the longer nights will create a sense of lethargy amid students at Fresno State.

“I like ‘spring forward’” says Castillo, “With longer nights I don’t feel as motivated to accomplish anything.”

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