84.04% Are Aware Of Daylight Saving Time

Daylight saving time is a common practice that is used in over 80 countries around the world. These countries usually introduce daylight saving time for the summer period. Specifically, it is ahead of standard time by one hour. In detail, the summer period usually begins on the last Sunday of March. This is the time when the state decides to live according to seasonal time. Then, on the last Sunday of October, they usually turn the clocks back.

Furthermore, the debate within society is about whether or not a seasonal switch is needed and its effectiveness subsiding. Thus, Real Research — the online survey app, conducted a survey on daylight saving time to find out the public opinion on this matter. Should daylight saving time be permanent? What are the pros and cons of daylight saving time? Also, what is the reason to support daylight saving time? Here are the results.

Highlights

• Almost 85% are aware of daylight saving time
• Almost 93% think the practice of daylight saving time should continue
• 12.69% support daylight saving time for health and wellness reasons

Three-Quarters of the Participants Are Aware of Daylight Saving Time

To start off, the Real Research survey app asks if respondents are aware of daylight saving time. In response, 84.04% are aware and 15.96% are unaware. In addition, 73.19% say their country observes daylight saving time.

Almost Everyone Thinks the Practice of Daylight Saving Time Should Continue

The survey then asks respondents if the practice of daylight saving time should continue. Almost all the respondents (92.43%) say ‘yes’ while only 7.54% say ‘no’. Accordingly, on the question of respondents having their countries adopt daylight saving time, the majority (54.98%) say ‘no’ while 45.02% say ‘yes’.

Reasons To Want To Keep Practicing Daylight Saving Time

Next, the survey asks about the main reason why respondents support daylight saving time. On this, 56.11% say for national interest from energy conservation. Meanwhile, 15.86% say for safety reasons and 12.69% say for health and wellness reasons. To add on, 5.32%, 3.46%, 3.17%, and 2.90% say work ends earlier, for revitalizing the economy, the hours of daylight benefit them professionally, and for the protection of the environment, respectively.

As for the reason behind not supporting daylight saving time, 45.82% say it affects their biorhythms and hormonal cycles. Adding on, 17.63% think it could interfere with sleep while 10.26% believe it is inconvenient to change the time.

Following after, 7.49%, 6.94%, 5.35%, and 5.04% think that the social cost would increase, could be the cause of sleep deprivation, can also be the reason for working hours extension, and labor efficiency would decrease, respectively.

Finally, the survey asks about the public opinion on which time would people prefer? In answer, 60.07% say standard time all year. In contrast, 20.77% prefer daylight saving time all year. Lastly, 19.15% are okay with switching back and forth between both.