As summer gives way to fall, everyone in the northern hemisphere gets less and less daylight.

Floridians, as they stop preparing for hurricanes and start preparing for school, see the sun rise later and later. By early November, the sun sleeps in as late as a quarter to 8.

Then, suddenly, on the first Sunday in November, an hour is lost. When daylight saving time ends, Floridians set their clocks back. As a result, the sun rises much earlier, as early as in May or July.

The time change affects the evening too, when skies get dark an hour earlier — often before those of us on the day shift can get home from work.

But all that could change. Florida wants to stop “falling back” and stay on daylight saving time year-round. If the federal government says yes, what will that look like?