Is Daylight Saving Worth it?

Guest: Laura Grant, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College You may still be recuperating after losing that one hour Sunday morning. Jumping ahead does mean it will be lighter outside when you get home from work tonight thanks to that quirky clock-changing thing we do twice a year. (Well, every state except Arizona and Hawaii does, anyway.) What’s the point of Daylight Saving Time? Every year state legislatures try – and fail – to opt out of it, so clearly the value is in question.