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Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Yesterday, many schools, colleges, and universities across the United States marked an important milestone in the era of virtual learning that began in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Even schools that have since reopened for in-person lectures have given their students and teachers the option of attending via Zoom. Monday marked the first time students attended Zoom lectures while the country was not observing daylight saving time. In a curious coincidence, many colleges and universities have spring break in mid-March, coinciding with the first workweek after clocks skipped an hour for the start of daylight saving time (often referred to as “spring forward”). As K-12 schools, colleges, and universities tend to have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays, the last day of in-person classes before the outbreak of COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, was Friday, March 6, which also happened to be the last day of classes before daylight saving time began. For many colleges and universities, the era of Zoom meetings began in the week of March 16-20, 2020, the week after spring break, after which the United States (minus Hawaii and Arizona) observed daylight saving time for seven and a half months.
In all 48 DST-observing states, daylight saving time ended at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, at which point the clocks were turned back to 1:00 a.m. standard time. As students across the nation logged into their Zoom meetings Monday morning, the statement, “Ever since December 2019, schools and colleges have in-person lectures if and only if areas are on standard time” became permanently false and will never be true again.