It’s that time again.

Twice a year clocks are set back one hour back before winter and ahead in the spring, but the transition isn’t always smooth.

Heather Morris was almost late to work Sunday.

Morris, a sophomore dietetics major, works at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union bookstore.

“My mom usually wakes me up,” she said.

A friend left her a phone message to save her from lateness. When Morris listened to the message, she heard the time with daylight savings.

“It was kind of lucky that person called me.”

Freshman English major Jason Browning was only 10, instead of his usual 20, minutes early to work at the bookstore.

He went to see a movie at Millikin University Saturday night.

“I got back at two in the morning at old time. I had full intentions of changing the clock,” Browning said. “The next thing I know, it’s noon.”

He said a friend woke him up.

“I had to drive to work, but I usually walk.”

Jil Gates, a junior elementary education major, said she and her family missed vacation.

She said they missed a train that had left an hour earlier than they expected because of the clock change.

“We were supposed to go on a day trip to Chicago,” Gates said. “We waited at the train station for a good few hours.”

Alex Rohner’s family also forgot.

“My whole family forgot to do it,” she said. “By the time we all got ready and everything … we missed a half a day.”

Liz Korney, a freshman elementary education major, regreted losing the extra hour.

“I was just upset because I like to sleep.”

Most students weren’t bothered by the clock change.

“It really hasn’t caused a problem,” said Dustin Gerdes, a sophomore psychology and marketing major.

Parents can’t be the alarm clocks they were in high school.

“When I lived with my parents they always told me,” said freshman accounting major Mike Behnke. “I’ve always known to do it. If I go out, I do it the night before.”