What is daylight savings time for?
You know what I’m talking about, one hour after, one hour before. You love it, you hate it. You get more sleep, you lose sleep. My uncle says it saves energy, and my mom says it’s for farmers.
Whats it for? And how does it help?
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It gives us more light in the evening, which means we can hang out more outdoors before we have to go in and turn on the lights. It probably does save energy, but I doubt if it saves much. I don’t think farmers are affected at all. They have to milk the cows at the same time every day, no matter what the clock says. They also have to work when there is light, again, no matter what the clock says. I think it matters most for people who work 9–5. If we shift 9–5 to an earlier position, we are done with work when there is an extra hour of light in the day.
I think the safety of school children played a big part of Daylight Savings Time.
I believe it is mostly a marketing ploy to allow more shopping during the summer months.
Yes, it has to have something to do with economics to make it necessary to force us to move the clocks 1 hour. There are ways to get around that without all of us changing clocks. The Earth tilting on its axis could care less about time.
To adjust daylight hours to when most people are awake and about.
Not everyone benefits from the change. Farmers and others who rise before dawn may have to operate in the dark a while longer before daybreak.
Some benefits: more available daylight increases energy savings while decreasing the number of traffic accidents, traffic fatalities, and incidences of crime.
Congress noted other advantages while updating legislation in 1986, including “more daylight outdoor playtime for the children and youth of our Nation, greater utilization of parks and recreation areas, expanded economic opportunity through extension of daylight hours to peak shopping hours and through extension of domestic office hours to periods of greater overlap with the European Economic Community.”
source- National Geographic News
To aggravate us, it seems. It started to allow more daylight so kids could help on family farms after school. Since corporations have bought up so many small farms there is really no reason to keep the aggravating, confusing, change twice a year.
If memory serves, Arizona never changes their clocks. I don’t live there so I don’t know if it helps them or not. Anyone here from AZ?
AZ does not change —woodcutter is correct.
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