Daylight saving never made sense. While it supposedly allowed more time active in the sun, it never demonstrated to save energy, and nowadays people would go out at whatever time they choose, one hour never makes any difference. However, it does make a difference for sleep, and demonstrated rise in traffic accidents, cardiovascular disease, and sleep deprivation if you don't change schedule on the days of shift makes it a health concern pertinent enough to abolish such a practice. The world moves forward with change, we should adapt to new evidence rather than be reactionary in change.
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I have no beef with daylight savings time, it saves energy, and makes it safer to be out later. I enjoy the sun out later rather than earlier but, there is an issue with it. You might not think losing an hour of sleep is but, sleep researchers have found that people with heart problems and other health issues can have an increased heart rate and ponetionaly go into a heart attack. During april there was a noticeable amount of increased car crashes and work related deaths. There's definitely something wrong with having to change someone's sleep schedule. Hope this gives someone a new understanding.
Daylights saving helped in the past. Nothing but a tradition now. Just because it doesn't help you doesn't mean its useless to others. Not a big deal and not a threat to anybodies health.
Yes, we should abolish DST. I can't believe it's been implemented for over 100 years.
I hope we can abolish DST as soon as possible. It is destroying my health.
Make Standard Time year-round again, and abolish DST. We tried year-round DST in 1974. Six children died, and it was immediately repealed. DST in winter would delay sunrise past 9am in some places. DST increases heart attacks, traffic fatalities, and energy waste. Return us to year-round Standard Time. #YearRoundStandardTime
I have learned that Daylight Savings Time is good for the environment. I learned this from one of the science Night Write I have done before. The article titled “Ten Things About Energy” is the article I’m referencing. The article says “When we turn our clocks forward each spring, we move an hour of daylight toward the end of the day. In 2008, we had four extra weeks of Daylight Saving Time. Scientists studied how much energy we saved and found out that we saved 0.5 percent of electricity. Even though that sounds small, it's actually 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours, which is about how much electricity 100,000 houses use in a whole year.” That entire paragraph is basically saying that By Springing Ahead, for some strange reason our energy use goes down by a lot. Saving energy is a good thing because later in years to come we will have saved 0.5 percent of electricity and it adds up after a while. Without Daylight Savings Time, we would be losing 0.5 percent of electricity.
Personally daylights savings isn't really a bother. After experiencing it a few times i've gotten used to it and now it just another routine that I have to keep in the back of my head. I don't think it should be forgotten or ignored.
In my perspective, I think that daylight saving should not be banned as it turns out to be beneficial for me and I believe it is helpful for other American too. It makes sure that less artificial lights are need. When it is spring forward an hour, we add 1 hour of natural daylight to our afternoon schedule and as a result, we get a longer evening. Its saves a lot of electrical energy as we use less lights and it also helps people to rise early and start their day early to done with their daily chores. I have also noticed that accidents have reduced because people are less likely to driving in the dark and it reduces robbery and attacks. However, there are some drawbacks of daylight saving as it makes me fall sick often due to lack of sleep.
I think that daylight savings should stay the same because I see how people are saying that it is pretty useless but people are use to it now and expect it to happen.It provides a change on everyday life and if it were the same everyday it would be lame and boring because it would a be a regular day everyday going to work everyday at the same time waking up at the same time everyday
In many cases the electricity amount that a city spend in a month its unamiable because there are things that are good set it don’t need it be to change. In my onion they don’t to adjust the clock some many times it will cause that the people like it says in the article suffer from hearts attacks. There are things that you have to prioritize like a human life not saving energy .I assumed that the electricity it’s made of some product that don’t contained the environment .
I think that daylight saving time is better than autumn time. Because during daylight saving time many people will be able to implement all their daily plans and it is also fun for children, after school, many children cannot play outside because of the too early sunset. As well, seasonal time changes will affect the health of many adults and old people's. For example, for two days, my mom and husband can't get out of bed because of the change of time, both of them feel a severe headache and their blood pressure is dropping or lifting. As well as change of the season's time will also affect the state's economy and the state committee can suffer many damages. I think that state should stop seasonal time changes, it is important for all and nobody will not get harm.
I born in Colombia, and in my country we do not have daylight saving, the sun rises at 5 am and hides at 7 pm, but in the United States, when the daylight saving change, the sun begins to leave after 5 am and hiding from 8 to 9 pm. For me is not to difficult to assimilate this change but it is not important, because for me is the same as all the year, the difference is the time when the sun start to hide and turns darkness after 8 or 9 pm. I think could be better if the time continue being the same all the year, because there is not going to be necessary to change the watch to came early to school or work.
Daylight saving affect people health because is hard to regular our body from one routine to another; this effects our schedule for eat, sleep, work. Also is hard for our kids to adapt. I believe that pushing clocks one hour forward and then back in autumn does not have sense, everybody has a routine and people do with or without light. The life changed and climate change, I don’t understand why people are oppose a federal ruling no body is losing or gaining an hour of time, the day has 24 hours for everybody. Might be better if this decision apply for the whole country.
I think the best way to take a definitive policy about the Daylight Saving Time is comparing statistics and benefits of the different topics to know if this change has been effective; measures such as saving lives due to the depression that the daylight produces in the mind and body of people; decreasing traffic accidents, rate of suicides or diseases. Another point to measure would be the impact on the economy. We must know how much we have saved in electricity, how much money families have been able to save and how this measure has affected small and big companies. Only by comparing the numbers in these subjects during the last year we can take a definitive policy.
Daylight saving can be partially acceptable because it permit that we have more daylight time in our life, and it is helpful for farmers. However, these changes can to affect our health. We have to change our daily rhythm because we have to adopt at lost one hour in the spring and gain one hour in autumn. I don’t think that the economy can be affected for the change of the clock by gain one hour of daylight, because people have the option to buy online, is not necessary go to the store. On the other hand, people that support the idea of nudging the clock one hour say that we can save energy reducing the use of artificial light, which it’s a good idea for to help the world
It is beneficial to save time , in some ways . Pushing one hour in spring and moving one hour in autumn contribute to rise economic . I think we should use this changing in common sense . Eventually we should not be complaining about daylight savings time.
My opinion about this article “should the U.S abdish daylight saving by Shannon Doyne, daylight savings time has always been beneficial for the people who live in U.S, because they should be able to be outside for more time or extra hour makes us feel awake and more productive, also, it saves energy to opt out. And we do not pay more electricity bills. Before when I lived in my country I didn’t understand why the government change the time in my country like U.S, because we don’t have a good system electricity like U.S. But I never according to the change they do with the time in my country.
I think that we should change the time in winter because in winter gets dark earlier than in summer. In winter, nights are longer than summer and most of the time, assaults, attacks and robberies occur during the night-time and because of these things nights could be dangerous. For example, in winter 5:00 PM looks like night but is really not and still the world has to keep moving. People have to work and go to school and do their regular activities no matter if it is dark or not. In conclusion, the change of the time is good because we can take advantage of it and is less dangerous.
Should the U.S. Abolish Daylight Savings Time?
According to Business Insider history reported US “Daylight Savings Time was originally started to save coal during World War I, so that people who normally wake up hours after the sunrise and stayed up late after dark burning energy, to light their homes would have more daylight hours later in the evening therefore saving energy”.
A March 2012 national survey by Rasmussen Reports found that 45% of American adults think daylight savings is worth the hassle, but nearly as many 40% disagree fifteen percent are undecided.
AS those statistical results are set we can see that the outcome importance of disagree this business are mitigated!
But if the 15% joint the disagree they will change the tomorrow of the Day Savings Time light.
In my opinion about “Should the United States Abolish Daylight Saving Time”. From my point of view I think the purpose of daylight savings time could be beneficial. It would be very good if we do not have to make any change about the time in any season. Although making daylight saving time permanent could also come with economic benefits I think many people could disagree. Mr. Downing says “most people do not even understand whether moving the clocks forward gives them more sunlight or less sunlight in the morning”. So I think this purpose could be successful.
From my personal opinion I believe that Daylight saving as both positive and negative impact around the World. It depends mainly on the spring and fall season. If the clock is pushed backward that means one hour before in spring season then more and more people can get nervous and frustrated because there will be no extra time remaining for doing the particular job for workers, managers, employers, in each and very sectors around the world. They will get less demotivated for doing the job and there will be less competition among the rival industry in the whole market. The consumer’s essentials goods and services such as clothing, food, water, and shelter cannot be satisfied more efficiently according to their needs and wants. As a result some country can suffer from poverty and goes into recession. Some famous multinational company such as Nike, Adidas can reduce stop doing the business in future time in a country. On the other hand there are some benefit of daylight saving. If the clock is pushed forward that means in the fall season. Then more people can get extra hour. At this moment the day becomes longer while night becomes shorter. The workers in a particular job can do their task more accurately and quickly without making any kind of error in doing the job. The employers are likely to get extra salary, bonus, commission For doing the job for extra hour.
For me, daylight saving it does not affect me. This change is mental if you think about it. It only take time to adapt to it. Even though, most people say that DST affect their health can be truth because they excuse that the sun will naturally change into being lighter in the summer and darker in the winter. It is proven that it messes with your physical health too. For example, most people say that when the winter is coming they feel sadness because it is all dark outside. Therefore, DST causes seasonal depression in many people. This is why many people think do not we should have continue having DST.
Daylight savings time is in place to apply of the daylight and have more time to work with light. Those people who are working in offices, factories, and at home, which ratify the reason for daylight savings. The time change approach in my mind when I have to change my clocks. Sometimes, I think daylight saving system is not very important and it only affects a certain population. I believe it is better to wake up early in the morning with the sun shine. It is also better have to the sun set later in the day. The more daylight is better for everyone. I see more benefits of reducing the amount of daylight. The "health concern" losing an hour is also offset by the health benefit to be exposed to more sunlight. While those people who truly believes the daylight saving should be abolished, those people are the minority. I think we have to abolish or keep daylight savings maybe the whole country should be agree because it is beneficial our daily life.
For me this does not affect me because we only have to adapt to the changes. Although some people can be affected it, because the sleep cycle is affected by the change of time because the body must get used to lying down and getting up in different circumstances and when the time changes in autumn we gain an hour and in summer we lose one. However with the summer schedule when we get home, we can enjoy a few hours of light in standards working days.
Daylight savings is something that is outdated and something that today we don’t use in
this century. I think that daylight savings should not be removed because when the summer
comes is a good benefit that in New York have 16 hours of daylight and 8 hours
of night time. Daylight can cause confusion in some people for example they can wake up at
6:30 AM in the winter but because they see all dark they can think that is more early
Because there’s no sunlight. Also when we change the our we set the clock one hour before or
One hour one hour after this can be a bad benefic because if someone is tired and is trying to sleep more the changing light will affect his sleep hour.
Several decades the United States has been making this change of daylight saving to adapt the change of rotation of our planets. Many years ago this method was difficult to assimilate for the population because the process to push back clocks was manually. So that, the majority of people forgot to change their clocks and this caused some problems or inconvenient on their daily routine. Actually, moving the time back or overtake it is easy because technology make it automatically. I understand that procedure distorts our neural system for the first days not only when the time go back, but also when it overtake because our body is already used to an schedule to sleep and to get up and with each change feels the difference. Indeed, the rotation of the earth and the sun make a notable difference. For example, in summer the sunset is later and it is good because the days are longer and we can spend more time with our family and do many activities outdoor. However, in fall the inverse happens, the days are shorter and colder. As result of that, we have to stay at home for more hours. I think we have to accept this regulation because it is just twice a year and this is in a certain way benefits to us.
I think the United States should abolish daylight saving time because it is not a safe situation and it is not necessary. In my opinion, it is nice when it is autumn and it gives me an extra hour to sleep, but when spring arrives I feel weird with the change of hours and it is also harder to adapt to the day, this in return, makes us feel more tired and could cause many accidents throughout the day. In the article, Mr. Chu and others said: “has shown that human beings just aren’t as flexible about their daily rhythms as they once seemed; accidents, heart attacks and strokes tend to occur in greater numbers around the time shift”. We can prevent all of these incidents from happening if daylight saving time goes by.
In my opinion, I would like to share that daylight savings time is in place to make more use of the daylight and have more time to work with light outside. This was created for mostly people who work outside, like farmer, lifeguard, forest ranger, and environmentalist nowadays, more people are working in offices, factories, and at home, which negates the reason for daylight savings. I believe that daylight savings time is helpful. In our busy life it is nice to have it be brighter out later, I think changing the time twice a year is little perplexed for me. It is little annoying to have to changing my car clock, all the clocks in my house, and making sure I plan what time I have to go to bed that night. Before it changes so my sleeping schedule will messed up. I think starting first day of daylight and day before of daylight is little puzzling for me but I will be used to it day by day. I believe day by day people get used to it because people are habitual
Pushing clocks one hour is not bad. People in the USA would like to support the ritual. Some say their lots of benefit of daylight changes in most states but not enough in other states. Reading the article, I can say states that I am hoping to get more sunlight rather than the people of California. This explains people would like to prevent daylight savings, while others love it for it gives people more time to do their activities and more time to finish their important works.
In my opinion, the change about the time in summer is ridiculous because the sun is still in the same place and people continue doing their same tasks daily. However, probably the time in summer change because it benefits in one way or another the government or companies with the hours of their workers. Therefore, they want to keep the time change in summer for their own benefit and not for the workers. It is supposed to save energy and it has effects on the economy, to this benefits I referred previously because they want to keep the change in the hour, because it is an economic benefit for some people. I think, the whole country should be able to interrupt the change on the time in summer and not just some states, it is unfair.
Every winter the clocks fall back and it gets dark early, and as soon as it gets dark early I know we've hit winter. Same thing goes for summer as we spring forward and set our clocks an hour ahead I know it's summer time because it's still sunny out at 7 pm. I personally enjoy the time jump for what it's worth. When we fall back or spring forward it gives me a heads up that winter and or summer is right around the corner. I enjoy that little extra boost of confidence or relief after the few days of sleep deprivation are over. I would not be devastated if we were to abolish the time act since it would allow me to have more daylight and energy.
I do think the purpose of daylight savings time is pretty useless now, because the things it was needed for previously no longer truly apply with our advances in technology. Mr Downing also makes a good point when stating, “Most people don’t even understand whether moving the clocks forward gives them more sunlight or less sunlight in the morning. They just can’t remember what it does, because it so defies logic.” Basically if we don’t know the purpose of daylight savings time why should we bother to keep it. If we can’t remember if we get more or less sunlight in the morning then it is a sign that daylight savings time is no longer relevant to us today and it “defies logic.”
I don't understand the rationale for opting in daylight savings time all year considering that federal law does not allow it, forcing Californians to wait until Congress says OK. The law allows opting out so why not chose that alternative since the clock will also be set once and once only all year.
Don't Abolish It
I think we should not abolish daylight savings. I took a national french contest and one of the articles was about daylight savings time and how there's some controversy about whether it should be abolished. A lot of people are in favor of its abolishment because they believe it messes up their day-to-day schedule. It mostly affects babies and older people. But after some time our bodies get used to it. And after all it is for something good, longer days. When its darker faster there are more car accidents.
I think daylight savings is ridiculous. Although the system might have served a purpose in the past, it doesn't have one now. People my age couldn't even tell you why the institution exists. People find it much easier to fall asleep at night than to wake up in the morning, so cheating everyone out of an hour of sleep is just frustrating. I never know when the clock is going to shift and I'm never sure if it's going backward or forwards. In reality, all that happens is that we wake up and commute to work or school in pitch black darkness. This is nothing but negative.
I think that daylight savings time in the fall when we "fall back," is great. However on the other side of that coin when we "spring forward," is where I have issues with daylight savings. I think rather than doing either of these things we should just stay at the same time throughout the year, instead of switching. Because when we "spring forward," it forces us to wake up when it feels like it's 5 am and pitch black outside. This throws not only us as students off for weeks who many of which are already sleep deprived, but everyone else who has to get up and go to work. I think overall it would benefit everyone if we just stayed on one permanent time schedule, and abolish daylight savings time.
I think daylight saving is great in the fall when it gives me an extra hour of sleep one night but in the spring when we “spring forward” it takes me a long time to adjust. It is nice to have some extra sunlight at night but waking up at what feels like 5:30 every morning is the worst. In the article it says, “human beings just aren’t as flexible about their daily rhythms as they once seemed…” I think this is very true. I go to sleep and wake up at the same time everyday and don’t really feel all that tired and groggy. But this past week I have been yawning in every class and lay in my bed for at least an extra 20 minutes every morning. I hate not getting all the sleep I need but I think it would be weird to not have daylight saving. The time the sun would rise and set would be really weird for the whole summer which I don’t think people would like. We should just keep daylight saving and just deal with the couple of weeks od adjusting like we always have.
Oh, I absolutely loathe Daylight Savings Time. Every year, at exactly 1 AM one spring morning, the world cheats me of another hour of sleep like some sort of practical joke. The next few days pass sluggishly, and not a single person praises the ingenious decision to jump forward an hour. No one cares about the “extra daylight.”
I’m not the only one who thinks like this. According to the article, both Hawaii and Arizona have decided to be rational states and not obey the useless presence of Daylight Savings Time. It causes people stress, less sleep, and frustration at a world where the Sun can just magically move forward an hour. They used to be a reason for it. Back after WW1, people claimed that the extra hour of daylight during the night increased how much people were willing to shop in the afternoon. But look around you! Less and less people are going to their local butcher or artisan, and spending more time on Amazon and EBay. Daylight isn’t an issue with he have a flashlight in the palm of our hands.
So I say, let’s stop this insanity. Make 2019’s spring forward the last it’ll ever do. Maybe then, I’ll get some more sleep…
I’ve always considered daylight saving time as redundant and I’ll appreciate it if it gets demolished and be gone forever. Getting an hour less of sleep or going to bed an hour earlier can be nerve-wracking sometimes, it just disturbs my circadian rhythm. In the article, Mr. Chu and others said “ This has shown that human beings just aren’t as flexible about their daily rhythms as they once seemed; accidents, heart attacks, and strokes tend to occur in greater numbers around the time shift.” We can prevent all these incident from happening if daylight saving time isn’t a thing anymore. There were more benefits a century ago on daylight saving time but nowadays they have all transformed into disadvantages. Daylight saving time was meant for the farmers back then but due to advance in technology, we don’t even need it anymore.
For me, daylight savings time really hurts my mental health in the winter. When the sun is down before 5pm I get extremely depressed, and I never want to leave my house, but when we have spring forward, my mood is almost instantly boosted. I feel more more productive and I get into less depression spells.
I think that not having daylight savings time would do wonders not only for my mental health, but also for the mental healths of many people that also suffer from seasonal depression.
For the longest time I didn’t know what caused me not wanting to do anything and just wallow at home by myself, but when I took a psychology class this year, I learned about seasonal depression and realized that I suffer from that. When I talked about it with my friends they also related to my feelings with the time change.
The sun will naturally change into being lighter in the summer and darker in the winter, so I do not see the need to change that process. It is proven that it messes with your physical health too. This is why I do not think that we should continue having daylight savings time.
Daylight Savings has never affected me as much as it has to the people who have suffered heart attacks and strokes due to the loss or gain of an hour. In fact, if I get affected by Daylight Savings, it's because I look outside seven pm and it's still bright out.
I've experienced a multitude of different time zones, from two hours to 16 hours. With time changes like those, it only takes me a day or two to adapt to it, and then I'm as good as I was before. With daylight savings, time gives us six months to get used to the shift.
I'm fine with either way. It's not like having Daylight Savings is the biggest deal. Either way, we forget about it for six months until it comes to steal or return our hour to us, so if DST is abolished, we'll probably forget it ever existed.
Although Daylight Saving Time now seems pointless and unneeded to some, I maintain the belief that Daylight Saving Time should remain untouched by politicians and legislators. The argument that DST is now irrelevant in today’s society may have some validity, but certain areas choosing not to change time during DST while others set their clocks back will only lead to confusion and controversy rather than benefitting society. For example, as mentioned in the article, if New Hampshire decided to not change its clocks during the year but the rest of the Eastern Time Zone did, this would lead to confusion for those involved and potentially cause confusion for things like business meetings or appointments from state to state, as this time difference would just add to the work to be done for scheduling. Also, DST moves an hour of sunlight from the morning to afternoon, allowing adults to experience sunlight after work too rather than darkness, and sunlight has been proven to release serotonin in the body and provide feelings of happiness and well-being, lessening depression. The only way in which DST should be abolished is if a whole time-zone agrees to do so. Unless this happens, I maintain that Daylight Saving Time should remain untouched because of its health benefits as well as the fact that it hasn’t caused any real societal problems, as ignoring DST in individual states would be difficult and attempting to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
Daylight Saving Time is to me a slight nuisance every six months for maybe the first one or two days of that gained or lost hour. It is not something I look forward to, nor something I dread; it is frankly something I could care less about.
The original purpose of Daylight Saving Time was to allot more sunshine for people to work under which I do believe as the article mentions, is outdated, but also something everyone has become accustomed to. Except those having strokes and heart attacks that is.
On that topic but on a more serious note, the article mentions how many humans with less flexibility in their daily rhythms tend to have heart attacks, strokes, etc. during the time. I mean I am no scientist, but I personally am unsure of how an hour of darkness can cause a stroke without some underlying problems but maybe that's just me.
However, since those things are happening and I'm not exactly sure there is anyone out there who is fervently pro- Daylight Saving Time and can testify on its miraculous benefits, I personally say, sure, do away with it.
As a typical, sleep-deprived, high school student, my dreaded 6:30 alarm is just as bad whether it is dark out or not. I believe we should take the path of least resistance and either abolish it all together or just leave it alone that way we could just use that extra hour in the morning to ponder some more important issues.
Daylight saving was originally conceived by George Hudson when sunny morning, people were still in bed, wasting daylight. Daylight savings, to me, is one of those random things we do every six months and forget about until the next one. The time change we just had was an unwelcome one for me.
My daily routine involves me waking up early before school. I use this time to exercise, get a good breakfast, and be as prepared for the school day as possible. I woke up to complete blackness and it took me a whole week before I actually woke up at the time my alarm said.
I prefer the earlier sunrise, earlier sunset in the winter time for my biological clock, but there is a time and place for the daylight savings. Practices during the summer are able to push to later hours, because of the sun’s longer presence. As a member of a marching band, the value of every minute has been drilled into my head.
I don’t care if it stays, or if it is abolished. Both sides have positives and negatives. If making a permanent time will increase productivity, I’m all for it. I wish that our government representatives would focus on actual issues before these irrelevant ones.
Daylight savings is something that is outdated and not useful in modern times. I think that daylight savings should be removed and every state should revert back to daylight time. I think this because, as said in the article, daylight savings can cause confusion and disarray between people and even lead to medical problems. I remember always having my sleep schedule feel different due to the time changes affect on my circadian rhythm. This always makes me either wake up too early or too late the next day. The time change not only affects people but also the economy. States constantly have to stay up to date with other states to maintain transactions and stocks, the time change only interferes with that process.
The point of a clock is to tell time, it defeats the purpose of clocks if we change the time to what we want it to be. Daylight savings may have been a good idea in times when we were an agricultural based nation but now what we need the most is consistency with our time.
I've been through almost every time zone that there is through travelling. The article makes the explains how some states are discussing abolishing Daylight Savings. Personally, I don't think that getting rid of Daylight Savings will help or hurt us. The most that it hurts us is a few uncomfortable days where we wake up and fall asleep a bit later.
I'm one of those few people who's schedule seem uninterrupted by the switch in time. I never miss my alarm because my iPhone automatically gets set back or pushed forward as a setting. But for some, Daylight savings day is a catastrophe.
As mentions in the article, "accidents, heart attacks, and strokes tend to occur in greater numbers around the time shift." In less severe effects: confusion, drowsiness, and rushing in the morning also happen.
Personally, I think that Daylight Savings should stay. For society however, I wouldn't be opposed to it being abolished. Considering it doesn't affect me, I don't have as strong of an opinion as others.
Daylight savings time, at least in my house, creates chaos twice a year. I always and will always forget to change my clock and am usually punished for it almost immediately. For example, two years ago I missed and important test and almost had to get a zero because I didn't reset my clock. Daylight savings time is an unnecessary hassle.
As said in the article daylight savings time disrupts routines causing more car crashes, heart attacks, and strokes during this time of year. So, not only does it cause small amount of confusion, but can also lead to events as fatal as car crashes.
I believe that as a whole daylight savings time is not worth the struggle it has shown to be. Having a more consistent amount of sunlight is not worth the nationwide confusion and frustration.
I don't think changing the clocks is helpful or beneficial to us at all. I think it affects u in a more negative way because it makes us have to adjust to something were not used to. In the article, Johnson writes, "Human beings just aren't as flexible about their daily rhythms as they once seemed; accidents, heart attacks and strokes tend to occur in greater numbers around the time shift." This shows the negative affects of daylight savings and the time change. Yes, everyone loves it when it stays lighter outside for longer, but not everyone wants the change that comes along with it.
A big adjustment is that we are loosing an hour of asleep. This makes it harder to adjust to the day. This in return, makes us more tired and could cause many accidents throughout the day. It is not a safe situation and is not needed in my opinion.
Overall I feel that our society would be much better off without having the daylight savings time. There is really no outstanding positive benefits and it just puts a wrench in our day. This is a simple fix and I think people would be more relieved than upset if we put an end to daylight savings, well I know I would be.
There is no benefit to daylight savings time (DST) in the year two-thousand and nineteen. Adopted by the 1966 Uniform Time Act, the springing forward and backward has been nothing but a confusing mess. DST is a waste of time—an hour to be exact.
Health benefits are nonexistent. The human body is not as resilient as it once was when the country was in WWII, fearing daily, whether or not they were going to be nuked by the communists. They were focusing on staying alive, following the government in such a time of turmoil was just too easy, people didn’t really care what they were agreeing to as long as it meant another day. America now? We do not have these same fears. We have the ability to focus on the world around us and to focus on ourselves, our country. Accidents, heart attacks, strokes, occur in greater numbers around each time shift. What do we have to do to stop this? End DST.
Economic benefits are only existent to greedy companies and CEOs. People shop more in the spring due to the extra light, but this could also be attributed to the fact that income taxes come in around this time. DST isn’t what boosts shopping—spring cleaning and warmer weather boost shopping. With a sudden increase in income those benefiting purchase new clothes for themselves or family, they repair broken furniture, they buy things that make them happy. DST is just a bystander.
pushing clocks one hour isnt bad. people in the USA would like to oppose the ritual. some say theirs lots of daylight in most statesbut not enough in other states. in the article is states that "i am hoping to get more sunlight to the people of california". this explains people would like to prevent daylight saving. while others love it for it gives people moer time to do activities and more time to finish important things.
I feel like daylight savings time really isn't that necessary anymore. Whether or not everyone agrees, moving our clocks forward doesn't seem to make much sense. Overall, I feel like switching our clocks is just another thing that stresses people out. I feel like if the whole US abolished daylight savings, there would not been much of an economic downside. Once people got used to it and it was no longer new, it wouldn't impact people's health or shopping patterns much. Personally, I feel that the whole US should switch rather than individual states primarily for logistical reasons (it would be confusing for different states in the same time zones to be an hour off).
Ever since World War II we have moved our clocks back & forth an hour every fall & spring. Some people don't mind the change & others view it as pointless. In the summer we have an extra hour of daylight as oppose to in the winter we have one less hour of daylight. To some, this change has a big effect on their moods & health.
I think daylight savings is a good idea, although it isn't as useful as it was in the 1900's due to farming not being as popular nowadays. As a society we focus too much on little issues like daylight savings as oppose to major issues like climate change. Why are we focusing more on things that don't have as big of an effect on us as do other things? We avoid them. People in today's time have become so dependent & inflexible to where it's a hassle to change a clock back & forth an hour every couple of months as the article states, "Mr. Chu and others said, has shown that human beings just aren’t as flexible about their daily rhythms as they once seemed;" I enjoy receiving the extra hour & I don't mind losing an hour in the winter.
To be honest I have never been able to feel the shift in time to a very high extent. I may wake up a little groggy one morning, and the different light in morning and evening can be a little confusing, but it has never been a major thought in my life.
There are pretty sound points for both sides of this argument. As mentioned in the article, daylight savings throws off people's routines, increasing car accidents, heart attacks, and strokes at this time of year. However, it also keeps a more consistent level of light throughout the day, so there is some daylight in the morning as well as in the evening.
Honestly, it seems to me as if daylight savings is more confusing than it is beneficial. The whole process of adjusting clocks, getting used to the time change, and anything else that must change when daylight saving rolls around is not worth the few minutes gained or lost of sunlight in the morning or evening.
I believe that changing the clocks is not helpful at all. I don't understand how it benefits us. If anything I think it effects us in a bad way. Like in the article, Johnson writes "human beings just aren’t as flexible about their daily rhythms as they once seemed; accidents, heart attacks and strokes tend to occur in greater numbers around the time shift." That shows how it really does affect us.
I think it makes it harder for people to adjust to their day. Especially when we lose an hour of sleep. It makes us more tired, causing us to be less aware of what is going on around us. That could cause so many accidents. And one hour of light doesn't change much in my opinion. I think our society would be so much better off not having the daylight savings time.
Daylight Savings Time: that one day where everyone is grumpy that they have to wake up earlier, followed by being happy when they get to sleep in later that year. I personally don’t have any problem with it. We benefit by having an extra hour of sunlight during the spring and summer, and only lose about one hour of sleep on the day it goes into effect. Changing clocks isn’t even much of a hassle nowadays, with the ones on most phones and computers changing automatically.
In theory, California representative Kansen Chu’s proposal to “keep the state permanently on daylight time” makes sense. Everyone gets an extra hour of daylight year round. However, this could make it more confusing for people living outside the state. As the article says, if the law Kansen Chu is proposing is passed, California will be on a different time zone than Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and most of Idaho for half the year. If other states across America were to follow suit, traveling through different states becomes a guessing game of trying to figure out what time it is. If some states use DST permanently and others don’t, it could be 6:00 in North Carolina and Georgia, 7:00 in Virginia and South Carolina, and 5:00, 6:00, or 7:00 depending on where you are in Tenessee, Indiana, Kentucky and Florida. I certainly wouldn’t want to deal with this, and I don’t think most people would. In a perfect world, all states would be on DST permanently, but as this is improbable, the system is fine the way it is.
Every fall -- as us students can attest -- most of us rejoice as our clocks turn back an hour and we get an extra precious 60 minutes of sleep. Then we forget about it. Fast forward 4 months and we all are dreading, complaining, even protesting moving our clocks ahead an hour and sacrificing time of our nights’ sleep. Then -- shocker -- days later no one thinks about it. Well, not ‘no one’... but less than 10% of the population.
Farmers and ranchers and fishermen and other outdoor laborers. These are the people who are actually impacted by Daylight Saving Time...and it’s a positive impact; they entity provides them with a greater amount of time to work under the light of the Sun. But, you may ask, why can they not simply wake up an hour earlier and not disturb the rest of us? The answer is simple; they often rely on the rest of their community to be on a similar woken schedule as themselves. Imagine that for the first hour of every day you are one of the only ones in your city awake. Forget going out early for breakfast. Forget being able to respectfully mow your lawn early on what is YOUR Saturday. You may think that it’s trivial but even a time dissimilarity of simply one hour between someone and their community could result in drastic lifestyle effects.
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Plastic things are invading our world. At this time we live in a world where plastic is a thing that is used in many ways, but is it possible to take plastic off from our life? Many people try to not use plastic at home because plastic pollutes the environment and that affects the air we breathe. Wherever we go, we find things made of plastic or things in which plastic is essential. We must make people aware that plastic is not good for the environment and we must make a change of mentality to have a planet earth clean and free of plastic. We must start step by step, sudden changes are not good. Starting to recycle plastic like plastic bottles, plastic bolos among other things, we will have a good start for a better free life of plastic on the planet.
Daylight savings time was once used to help extend sunlight hours for the farmers to keep up with their crops. This technique is not of much use anymore though I do believe that we should keep the time as it is right now and not keep going back and forth. Many states are trying to make a ballet to just stay in the day-light savings time year long like California and some have even opt outed of this. For example Arizona and Hawaii do not participate in the yearly changes of times.
The constant changes of the time has caused certain people to have health problems because they are having to change their rhythm. Changing the clocks is also very expensive having to change each clock. There was a study by Lost-Hour Economic Index that showed the US having spent $434 million dollars including having to deal with health issues and workplace injuries.
Daylight True Savings
Americans do something we all know twice a year every year since we can remember. Trying to remember the “spring forward” and “fall back” can be a hassle to figure out, that it is by losing an hour or gaining an hour. It also makes people uncomfortable with the “Changes” of the one hour of sleep if they get used to it. However, it would be different if we didn’t have Daylight Saving Time (DST). It would not be the day we know it if we didn’t since we would have lost a day after 12 years. It makes the time for what we know as the “year." Daylight Saving is an important effect Americans since it has been a part of our lives. Americans have been doing it for years, and it has not changed since then. It helps to have more daylight during the summer since people are out more during the summer than the winter when we lose an hour. It helps saves more energy to the environment. People use energy every day and if DTS was abolished, it would create some serious issues. It also makes people gain an extra hour of sleep during the DTS. Gaining an extra hour of sleep makes people more focus in life. DTS is a mysterious thing on why Americans still do this today. It all started years before we were born, and will most likely continue for the years to come. It is a thing that America needs to stay how it is today because, without it, it would not be the date we know of today. Without DTS, the world, especially in America, would not be the same as we all know it today.
Daylight savings used to be a partially acceptable idea, because it put more daylight time into our days, allowing for things like increased farming. It’s outdated and unnecessary now though, and our entire country should stay at how the clocks are set with the spring change. As the article said, we can’t handle disturbances like that to our daily rhythms, and these changes can even cause serious health problems. We attempt to change our clocks so we can sync up with daylight, except that defeats the point of clocks. If we cycle back and forth we’re never just living with the same natural body schedule all year.
I think that ending daylight savings honestly wouldn’t have that much of an effect on the economy, especially since so much shopping is done online these days. Inside your house the only thing telling you if it’s one hour after sunset or five is your clock, and that’s why it’s important for them to stay consistent.
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People do not create their schedules around daylight savings. People are not very open to changing to their schedules. They still want to do the same things at the same time as they usually would, regardless of daylight savings. During WWI people may have changed their routines around daylight savings for their own personal safety, but we do not have the same concerns anymore, therefore modern day people have no need to change their routines based on daylight savings. In fact, it actually confuses the modern person; they tend to forget what they have to do around daylight savings time, therefore, not doing it. It has a negative impact on our economy, which, sadly, doesn’t really surprise me.
Setting your clock one hour ahead each spring means you lose one hour of sleep. This may sound like just a minor inconvenience- no real issue. Though actually, losing that hour every year could trigger underlying health issues. There is increased risk of having a heart attack, increased amount of car accidents, more workplace injuries, and an increased chance of developing depression. Sadly, there is even an increased number of suicides within the first few days of daylight savings. It is ultimately dangerous to our health.
@Adalyn Mankin -first, the hour is returned to everyone one the fall. Second, while many folks are promoting year-round DST based on health claims around the day we change our clocks, exactly ZERO people will state how permanent DST and the extremely late winter sunrises will increase both depression and morning commute car accidents. In northern cities of the lower 48 the sun will rise at 9am in January.
Daylight saving time doesn’t really make sense to many of us; most find themselves thankful that they can sleep for another, precious, tender hour, of which they are robbed when we spring forward again. However, daylight saving time (DST) has an imperative role to play in the world. DST offers all of us a chance to cut down on our electricity usage and crime, and it promotes social opportunities that enable us to become happier people. At the end of the day, no matter what hour it is, that is what we all want--to be happy.
Another hour of daylight results in power savings that benefit all. In 2008, the United States Energy Department found that DST saves about 0.5% of our total electricity used every day, enough to power over 100,000 households for an entire year. This frees up energy that has use in other realms, projects, reforms--like cancer research. Additional health benefits are also incontrovertible. More sunlight means more time outdoors, more time with our families and friends. Spending this hour outdoors--instead of remaining cooped up indoors--is a more enjoyable way to spend life. DST makes us healthier too.
Most of us dread losing our precious sleep. But in the long run, DST has far more benefits than downsides. The additional hour that we are gifted every March not only springs us forward an hour, but it springs us forward in life. Daylight saving time may seem annoying now, but without it, we would be left in the dark.
I am a student in high-school who has to got to school for 6 hours a day. I have homework when I get home and I also do community theatre till about 9:00 at night. The latest I go to bed is about 2:00 in the morning. When I found out it was day-light savings and that I am about to loose one hour of precious sleep time, I was furious. Throughout this entire week my sleep schedule has been way off and it's been really hard to focus knowing that I haven't gotten any sleep. I never understood why we even have this. To get the sun for a couple more hours? We see the sun every-single day. After reading this article I know i’m not the only one thinking the same thing. Especially when there are heath risks involved which adds strength to my opinion. For example, the author says “Lifestyles and patterns of work are different now than they were when daylight saving first became entrenched nationally during and after World War II. Research, has shown that human beings just aren’t as flexible about their daily rhythms as they once seemed; accidents, heart attacks and strokes tend to occur in greater numbers around the time shift.” If we keep messing around with time we could be creating an unhealthy life-style for all the states that are involved. I feel getting rid of Daylight Saving would prevent the risks stated above while having little to no negative impact on those who are involved.
In my opinion, daylight savings time has absolutely no purpose in society. The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries around the world that uses daylight savings time which partially shows how pointless it is. As Mr. Downing says. “Most people don’t even understand whether moving the clocks forward gives them more sunlight or less sunlight in the morning. They just can’t remember what it does, because it so defies logic.” The idea of switching a clock forward and backward annually just ridiculous if you think about it. If someone were to tell you that from now on we would have two Aprils every other year and no Aprils in between, you’d think they were crazy. How does that make any more sense when someone tells you that this will happen with a single hour of the day.
Also, it has been shown that shortly after switching the clocks, there is an increase in the amount of car crashes and other preventable injuries. This implies that people’s sleep schedule is thrown off by the hour change creating more tired drivers who are likely to make mistakes.
I hope that we can end this policy not only for its lack of a positive affect, but its directly negatively affects like disturbing people’s sleep schedule and potentially getting them into more dangerous situations.
Opposed to the point the author was making that daylight savings time is now just a “clock-shifting confusion of hours lost or gained,” I believe that daylight savings time is a positive thing and we should not get rid of it.
The purpose of daylight savings time is to make the most out of a day’s sunlight by springing the clock forward an hour in the spring to allow for extra sunlight in the summer evenings. Back when daylight savings time was first put into place, it allowed for people to use less energy, as well as some other benefits that the article mentioned such as “retailers found that people shopped and spent more on their way home from work when there was more evening light, and Wall Street investors liked gaining an hour of overlap with trading on the London financial markets.” I admit that some of those benefits aren’t as useful now as they were back then, but I still think that the benefit of having an extra hour of sunlight in the summer nights makes up for any temporary grogginess, confusion, or schedule changes that may be caused by the time change.
For people who have to work all day in the summer, it is very nice for it to still be light outside when they get off from work, so they can still enjoy the summer sun. In the summer this sunlight can be put to the use of enjoying a barbeque, staying at the beach longer, etc., whereas in the winter this sunlight doesn’t make as much of a difference since it’s cold anyway.
It is finally that time of the year that some population of the economy has mixed feelings about, there will be so many hours of daylight to go out in the sun, fewer hours of the dark night. It is crucial that the economy will stay in sync with one another, being closely tied with other states depending on their time zones. The real reason for daylight saving time is a legacy of its duty regulates railroad schedules, preserving it daylight saving would also be beneficial to the economy’s health, productivity, even reducing the use of energy.
An extra hour of light in the night. People are much more productive and spend more time outside, participating in activities such as clubs, programs, and sports. Daylight saving time is a human attempt to encourage live our best lives, increasing our vitamin D, exercise, socializing, overall improvement to mental health. Daylight saving time is like turning the pages in a book or turning over seashells. Being caught in the moment of feeling the refreshing breeze of the wind in mixture with the sunlight beaming upon you in the speck of dawn is a lovely warmth. The economy feels safe and wholesome in the daylight, numerous types of criminal actions are suspected to be influenced by conditions of lighting. It is also beneficial to reduce any kind of accident, simply because people are less likely to drive in darkness, feeling secure to see their surroundings very clearly in the daylight with the naked eye.
As our society and technology progresses, and the rest of the world continues to disregard the use as well as the relevance of Daylights Saving Time, is it still necessary for us as Americans to still take part in such an activity?
considering DST (Daylight Saving Time) has been in effect in the U.S. since 1966 and intermittently before that, is DST still a useful tool to save money and reduce the use of electricity? The short answer is...no; in fact the relevance to modern society and the ability of DST to reduce energy is negligible and relatively unnoticeable. In terms of saving money and economic value, DST can even be a negative factor. Often times studies have even found that the tiredness that stems from the time change causes a decrease in productivity; some cities even spend millions on safety campaigns to be instituted for the time change. But even factoring out economics and efficiency, DST has been shown to be somewhat detrimental to people's health. With the time change often comes higher likelihood of car accidents, workplace injuries, and even suicide; the early evening darkness that begins after the end of DST has also been linked to depression and anxiety. With all negative effects of Daylights Savings is it still truly relevant?
When it really comes down to Daylight Savings Time, we must ask ourselves these questions; is it necessary? Is it efficient? Is it safe and productive to those who must take part in it? And most importantly, is it economic?
Daylight savings isn't helpful anymore. As a student losing an hour has been awful this past week. I haven't been able to adjust my sleep schedule and I'm paying for it during school. I can barely keep my eyes open during class. It may only be an hour but it's impact is much more.
In the article it is said to increase accidents and heart attacks. If this is becoming a problem why is it still here? We set our clocks forward to just set them back in the fall. not just to me as a student but I bet it's a bigger hassle for parents and adults with jobs.
I would much rather stay with the time schedule we are in now. We have an hour more of daylight. That gives us one more hour to spend with family outside, one more hour for kids to play outside, one more hour for life to happen. This also could decrease the accidents, heart attacks and strokes that increase during this time. If states around the United States are considering abolishing this time switch we obviously need to enlighten ourselves on this topic.
i believe this would have a positive affect on everyone's health because they aren't having to retrain they're bodies to the different time changes. My father is a firefighter and I can't imagine what losing an hour of sleep has done to his schedule. Many nights he doesn't get much sleep from going on calls and now he loses an hour because of the time change. I just don't believe the time changes are helpful nor healthy.
Springtime is upon us. With the grizzly end to our coldest season comes the launch (or spring) forward into the season of growth, of green, and of tampering with man-made constructs. Daylight Saving Time was the brainchild of Benjamin Franklin. His idea was to save oil for their new lamps which have since become obsolete. Daylight Saving Time is obsolete.
While this far fetched idea may have been conjured in the time of oil lamps and Benjamin Franklin, this system was mainly used during World War One and World War two. The implementation during wartime--similar to the Franklin’s idea--was done in hopes of saving fuel for use in war. Despite being implemented nationwide, two states however--Hawaii and Arizona--do not use the system, keeping their clocks unchanged all year. The testimonials for Daylight Saving are stuck to the idea that doing this every year saves energy. Outdated data from the 1970s telling us that Daylight Saving saves the country 1% on energy. A meager sum in the grand scheme of it all. The logical, sensible argument would be to let time run its’ course because the whole practice only seems ridiculous at best.
This present issue is marred by conflicting ideas. Year in and year out this topic is discussed in English classes and dinner tables; groaned about by groggy workers on the bus fed up about having to get up an hour ‘earlier’. The only way to put an end to this national argument is by taking legislative action.
Daylight Saving time is a waste of time. Time has made it very clear that the time changes that once made life in the United States operate more smoothly have little to no positive effect on today’s societal structure, because our workdays revolve less and less around the sun, and our sleep schedules have become more and more sporadic since the 40’s. Daylight Saving Time, or DST, is essentially useless in modern society, and is more of a hindrance than anything else.
One of the best arguments against daylight savings time is what happens every time we as a country jump ahead or fall back. Chaos. People inevitably forget, or neglect to change their clocks and watches, because the institution has become more trouble than it’s worth, and as a result are hours late to work or school or whatever obligation they may have the day after the change occurs.
Time changes are remarkably stressful for the easily stressed, or those with staunch routines. That’s why the risk of accidents, strokes, or heart attacks increases in the time immediately following the change--at least that’s a consensus in the scientific community.
People in today’s America, especially our youth, have enough things to worry about when it comes to their lives. People are so concerned with other, more important things that Daylight Saving Time falls to the wayside, and is only significant when people forget to reset their clocks the day of.
Daylight Saving Time was the answer to a national problem that engulfed the nation in the 1900s. Yet, World War I is disappearing in the rearview mirror and the horizon is clear with opportunity. Opportunity to disable the haunting system of Daylight Saving Time.
As the years have progressed, our world society has too. There are now more ways to create energy than ever before and many of these are renewable at that.
Daylight Saving Time is a disease poisoning our nation. Ripping at the seams of our national fabric, the argument over DST has gone on too long and too inconsistently for any progress to be made. In order to decrease confusion to a minimum, it makes the most logical sense to abolish DST everywhere, not just in a few scattered states throughout the country. It seems as if it would be common sense that as a nation we follow the same rules; especially when it comes down to something so important yet precise. Our nation is run on the clock. Every event, date, party, meeting, game, practice, class and show runs on the clock. It's inevitable to escape. So why would we want to create more confusion then there needs to be.
Daylight Saving Time is the poster child for unnecessary change and it should come as no surprise that there are now so many anti-DST campaigns. The sooner we come together as a nation and see the light, to abolish DST, the sooner we will grow as a society and take those fatal steps forward into the future.
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Should not something as prevalent and quintessential in our society as time be specified? It should; and I want an answer as to why exactly we as one of the millions of species on this planet--that follow the basic laws of science--decided to give our two-cents towards something that is already functioning and change it for the worse. The strange and sometimes false reasons I have heard for its existence are not applicable to today’s society. Even if it helped a little; even if it ostensibly did something of some use--the hassle and confusion it posits are just not worth the trouble. Whatever the case--it is just not exactly useful in today’s society. America as a whole should abolish DST for everyone’s sake.
People are on medications that are time-sensitive, and miscalculations can lead to fatalities. Sure, everyone is thrilled to “gain” an hour of sleep; but moods change a few months later as people frantically start to tweet their woes about DST and how they must sacrifice an hour of sleep. The circadian rhythm is also thrown off whenever this shift occurs--this is never a good thing. Waking up at unnatural times usually damages us by increasing our stress and decreasing our alertness. Why hurt ourselves when we can make lives consistent by abolishing Daylight Saving Time. Let us not forget that this change also hurts animal environments by changing human activity patterns--to them at random. So much harm is done through these events that they should be done for.
The common phrase “spring forward, fall back” has stirred amongst the country for many years. The purpose of daylight savings time is to push the time of daylight an hour later, allowing for people to make better use of it. People have become so accustomed to this change, so what’s the point of getting rid of it now? Losing an hour of sleep may be dreadful for the first few days, making you tired and forcing yourself to adjust to this time change. Although, it brings something to look forward to at certain points of the year. Setting the clocks forward signifies that warmer weather is coming soon. Additionally, setting the clocks back gives Americans an extra hour of sleep, which can come in handy at this time of the year for students needing to catch up on sleep. Gaining sunlight during the warmer times of the year can be uplifting and have a positive impact on one’s mood. It is impossible to please everyone in a circumstance like this; it is either one option or the other. This contributes to my decision in saying that daylight savings time should not be abolished. The consensus should be made with the entirety of the country in mind because it is not something that a few states can choose to not participate in. The United States must unite together to make a decision.
Lindsay Trautmann
Time is not Real
Daylight saving time is just a way for the government to control how much sunlight humans are getting and giving them the power to be in control of what hours of the day are considered “daytime”. Time is a human made concept. Time isnt real--its an idea that humans made up so we can measure time. Hypothetically, we should have the right to change it as we please. However, we do not have the right to be changing the time willy nilly without having any consistency with the rest of the country or the rest of the world. Daylight saving time doesn't do anything for the world, society, or human kind, except for change the number we measure the sun setting by, and making things just a little more confusing for everyone and everything,
Time is not real. Us humans made this way of measuring the passing of life and the rising and setting of the sun. It is a great idea, really, props to the man who wanted to put numbers slowly counting down to our death. The number that we classify the sun setting and rising with hardly has any effect on how we live our lives anyways, so why add the complication? There is absolutely no point in changing the (already quite useless) numbers we count our “life” in. All it is going to do is add confusion. Humans need some sort of stability in their lives. Humans are meant to live with families and have friends, all for some stability and some sense of normalcy.
How helpful, if at all, do you think daylight saving time is? To what degree is it worth the hassle of changing clocks, “losing” and later “gaining” an hour of time?
I do not think there is any purpose in the 21 century to have daylight saving, it was used in previous ages because of students walking home from school at dark hours but now that is not an issue. In a way I dont mind daylight Saving when we gain an hour but losing one can be confusing to the brain because we form patterns in our daily lives and losing an hour confuses my sleeping hours.
As we trudge through yet another year’s “spring forward”, we should all truly consider making this year’s Daylight Saving Time, the last leap. We all know and have experienced firsthand, the heavy feeling of discontentment when we wake up to our alarms going off an hour earlier. Better yet, we all resent the coming days; in which, are to be filled with a constant overflow of confusion as we attempt to figure out and get used to the time of day. State representatives should keep up with the time--that is, Daylight Saving Time--and propose legislation to keep the nation on a constant time track. DST has proven to be a feckless formulation that does not benefit our society but instead harms it.
Daylight Saving Time was first established during the World Wars, in order to make better use of the natural sunlight. However, unless you are one to dwell on the past, it is essential to realize the extraneous place that DST holds in this day and age. DST has proven to be detrimental throughout the past decades in a multitude of ways. The time shift alters your circadian rhythm which is cause for heart attacks, strokes, and ultimately: death. Furthermore, it is not enough for just one or even most of the 50 states to ‘opt out’; the whole nation must work together and make a united decision. A house divided cannot stand; a house under different time constituents cannot--and will not--stand.
Daylight Saving Time has never really made sense to me. I mean, I get that the whole “saving energy” thing was a huge deal during World War II and for awhile after, but, today, huge amounts of electricity are being used 24/7-- phones are charging, televisions are blaring through the night, computers are plugged into walls the whole day without being shut down… this has all added up to make American society a power-eating monster all day and every day.
I know from experience that changing the clocks can also have major consequences when it comes to being on time and our stress levels. I go to a church that is filled with senior citizens. Going to church is a huge part of not only their spiritual lives but also their social lives, and missing mass because of their forgetting to turn the clocks forward or backward is a lot more devastating to them than it might be to the rest of us and may induce more stress. Unfortunately, when the time comes to change our clocks, this is what happens, and we see far fewer elders in our church that following Sunday. When I see instances like these, I can’t help but wonder why we throw these people out of the loop more than we need to.
Daylight Saving Time is obviously and outdated, stressful practice that has no place in 21st century America; instead of placing priority on changing our clocks twice every year, perhaps we should be more worried about the efficiency of our society and the health of the people within it.
We are told time can only go forwards. The clock only ticks one way. However, twice a year, these seemingly unbending rules are broken. Twice a year our circadian rhythm is thrown off as we stumble through our days in a tired blur. We lose an hour in the winter and gain it back in the spring. This is what we call Daylight Saving Time. In recent years, the question has arisen: Is Daylight Saving Time helpful and valuable in today’s world? The truth is, no. There is no use for DST in the United States today. The negatives outweigh the positives.
With each hour of sunlight we’re exposed to, the more Vitamin C we are exposed to. Daylight saving strips us of this nutrients. With a combination of this loss, and internal clocks being thrown (resulting in a lack of sleep), it’s no wonder that in today’s society “seasonal depression” has become commonplace. In a study Vitamin C was proven to help with depression as much as Prozac (a common antidepressant). Mice were exposed to stressful simulations for two weeks to emulate what we call depression. Half of the mice were treated with Prozac and half were treated with Vitamin C. The harmful effects of stress the mice were exposed to were reversed by the Vitamin C, and helped the mice cope just as much as the Prozac did. With vast effects like these, it’s no surprise that a lack of this vital Vitamin can harm mental health in mass populations. If DST is depriving our population of Vitamin C it’s doing more harm than it is helping.
DST, which originated as a wartime measure, does more harm than help when it comes to our mental and physical health. It is scientifically proven that a whole 8 hours or more of sleep for any adult is vital to functioning, and with the clock moving forward and back on a regular basis it is hard for any individual to maintain this standard. An individual's circadian rhythm is wired to make them feel drowsy at certain times and alert at others, and over the period of only 6 months--aka the time between the DST changes--it is near impossible to change an individual’s circadian rhythm. This means that DST is quite literally preventing all American citizens from getting a good night's rest. A lack of sleep doesn’t just make you feel groggy, as according to Mr. Chu, a Californian lawmaker, around the time of DST there is a higher rate of heart attacks, accidents, and strokes. In addition to this, poor sleep can lend itself to other mental issues, such as depression and anxiety. Adults today are quite literally battling against time to get a good night's sleep, and it is costing them both their mental and physical health.
Proofreaders like me would love to stop seeing 'daylight savings time', aside from losing an hour of light this time of the year -- I have to wait to get things done in the morning when we change our clocks in the spring. I hope we abolish daylight saving time. It's a saving, singular, just daylight. We are saving daylight. We are not savings daylight. SAD makes me grumpy, sorry.
There is absolutely no rationality in setting our clocks forward in the Spring and back in the Fall. The negative effects of changing our clocks vastly outweigh the benefits. We should pick one time orientation and stick to it. The real question, however, is whether we should opt to stay in daylight saving time or normal time. This all depends on how lawmakers push legislation. In my opinion, we should stay in daylight savings time year round. First off, there is no such thing as having more hours in a day; there are the same amount of hours, people only wake up earlier and go to bed later. Just as the article claims, having a “longer” day would improve business and family life because people are more willing to be out after work if there is still light outside. For high schoolers, this choice to have only daylight savings time would make sense. After school, if there are still hours of light, students are more likely to participate in extracurricular activities while still being able to get their homework done and spend time with family.
When I was a kid, the only reason I knew daylight savings was a thing is because at 7:15 pm, I would look outside and see that it would be too dark to play a baseball game under the lights at our towns home field. When this was the case, I asked the question every young kid asks about one million times a day, "Why?" Then I was introduced to the concept of daylight savings. Nothing is taken away or gained in the implementation of daylight savings. The way that I like to look at it is that this had to be passed through congress, and it did. In history we have learned that it takes a lot of steps to pass a law or an act. Also, I am just a seventeen year old kid from Danvers Massachusetts, the men who came up with the idea were most definitely a lot smarter than I am. In the summers who doesn't like an extra hour to drive around, go to parties, and get ice cream. We don't usually do that in the winter. So to people who want to abolish daylight savings, I ask you the same questions I asked as a little boy, "Why?"
Personally, I don’t see the need for daylight savings time. In the past it was a useful practice, but now it doesn’t hold as much importance. I think that the United States should stick to one or the other. Switching back and forth only frustrates people. It is not like daylight savings time is an important holiday or holds any significance. If it was taken away there wouldn’t be much difference in the way people live their lives. I think that the practice has run its course and now is no longer needed. The practice has no importance, nor does it benefit the U.S in a significant way. The economy would not be affected by the time change. It would be easier if all states stuck to one time. Having each individual state pick a time would be more confusing than it is worth. I understand some people see it as something to look forward too, but the ritual holds no logic for those of us who don’t. It would make more sense to have one time year around.
Although I don't see a necessity for daylight savings, I feel that the time change is a nice adjustment. I feel that Americans have become accustomed to the association of more day light in the spring/summer and earlier nights in the autumn/winter. Since we have evolved as an economy and society, the need for daylight savings, which was primarily for farmers, is no longer vital in current times. But, daylight savings does not cause harm and I don't feel that a set clock year-round would be beneficial. Although this is a personal opinion, I believe that many people can agree that the time change is something they look forward too and can greatly increase moods. Yes, this positive aspect is something people can find through other outlets, however, I don't feel that the time change is causing enough significant harm that nationwide change has to be taken. There are far more prominent issues that we as a country should be focusing on that are actually inflicting damage.
To be completely honest, I don’t see the point of daylight savings time. I guess that it’s exciting that the sun will be out for another hour, and then 8 months later we get an extra hour of sleep. However, other than that, what’s the point? There is no reason that there must be a daylight savings time. Daylight savings is still around in most places and ‘turning our clocks back” is something that almost everyone is used to by now. But it ultimately serves no purpose. I have no problems with it, but I do not find it necessary. It is not fair that states aren’t allowed to remain on savings time all the time. It does not make sense that they are allowed to stay on standard time, but not stay on daylight savings time. In some geographic locations it may make a lot more sense to stay on savings time due to position of the sun in relation to the earth year round. I think that the two options should be that either all states must partake in daylight savings or that all states have the option to partake or run on either standard or daylight savings time. It’s not fair to only offer two of the three possible options, so either mandate one, or allow them all. I personally believe that all three options should be available to all states. All of the states deserve to run on the times that work best for them.
I honestly don’t really mind daylight savings time. Yeah, losing an hour of sleep for one night can put me in a bad mood the next morning, but it’s become such a normal part of living in the United States that it doesn’t feel like a burden or inconvenience, it’s just life. Even our technology is just automated to change when we ‘spring forward’ or ‘fall back’. Plus, jumping forward one hour means one more hour of sunlight, which is actually a really nice reminder that warm spring weather is just around the corner, especially when you’ve grown up experiencing freezing New England winters. In terms of the abolishment of daylight savings time, I wouldn’t think the economic impact would really be much of anything if all states agreed to getting rid of it. In my opinion, I think abolishing daylight savings time should be a national decision just because I think it could get confusing and complicated if states had individual rights to regulate their own time zones.
Daylight savings time should not be abolished in the United States. Myself along with many Americans see daylights saving as a yearly tradition, the act of turning back the clocks during fall and spring if something we look forward to. Daylight savings allows for people who like sunny mornings, abd people who like sunny evenings, to both be happy. This is one of the few scenarios where we are actually able to please everyone, therefore we should not abolish what has worked for centuries. If we were to abolish daylight savings, the economy would plummet for various reasons. People tend to spend a majority of their money in the afternoon before it gets to dark, such as going out to eat or walking around town. If daylights savings was not in effect, it would be darker and people would have less of a motivation to go out, because the atmosphere is not as intriguing. This means afternoon activities would severely downfall and so will their sales. I feel there should be no territorial requirement marking whether or not daylights savings will be in effect. If something isn’t broken, it shouldn't be fixed, therefore we should leave daylight savings to remain in effect and successful.
In my opinion, daylight saving time does not benefit me. The time change only comes to my mind when I have to change my clock. I believe daylight saving time is not very important anymore and it only affects a certain population. That being said, I don't think the world would crumble if we didn't have it anymore. According to the article, many places have stopped daylight savings and they have not fallen apart.
Daylight saving can also be mentally draining. Though it only affects people twice a year, many children go to school exhausted and adults go to work sleep deprived. The hour change messes with the daily cycle that our body has. I believe that daylight saving time should not be used because the cons of it out way the pros.
In my opinion, daylight savings time has always been a positive change, and it has not inconvenienced me. I have always viewed it as a necessary alteration to make summer days longer. It is always dreaded on the day that we lose an hour of sleep, and I think that is the only reason that people actually dislike daylight savings. Daylight savings time is very helpful, gaining sunlight in the spring lifts spirits and prepares us for the long summer days. It would be most convenient however, to only have the spring forward time, and never set the clocks back. It is very helpful to have lighter evenings. During the winter, it gets dark at four o’clock, and this makes me and many others not as motivated to accomplish tasks after it is dark. It almost feels wrong to be running errands at six p.m. in January because it is pitch-dark, but such a thing is normal any other time when it is still light outside. I would prefer having darker mornings and lighter evenings. It is harder for me to drive to school in the morning after spring forward with the sun blaring in my face, however I do not mind as much if the mornings have less light in order for the sunlight to last longer at night. I can predict that ending daylight savings will have both positive and negative effects. Like any change, there will be many hoorays, and many complaints. I think that there should not be any major changes to the daylight savings time, unless the complaints of it being pointless continue to multiply.
Personally, I feel that Daylight Savings should be eliminated. In everyday life, especially for students like me, it serves only as an inconvenience. The third quarter is already difficult, so why make it harder? When students “lose an hour”, the initial shift in time really takes a toll on all of us. We have sixty less minutes to study, sixty less minutes to sleep, and sixty less minutes to decompress from a hard day of learning. Truly, “[a] day is a day, with so many hours of darkness and so many of light”, but when you went to sleep expecting to get at least six hours but wake up feeling like you got five, it really doesn’t matter what reality is. All that matters is that you are tired and feel cheated out of an hour of much-needed sleep.
As a student, I can describe this exact feeling from just today -- the first school day of the 2019 school year which “lacks” an hour. When I woke up, my alarm blared its same electronic screech and read “five o’clock” -- not a good thing to wake up to on a Monday morning. I crawled out of bed and into the shower, making sure I would make it to driver’s ed in time. When I got there, it was still dark and all my classmates had the same dazed, drowsy look on their faces. I took the End-of-Course test, all while thinking about what a tired brain thinks of -- namely sleep. It was torture and I know that, with all my heart, “shifting back and forth in the spring and fall, if it ever really made sense, no longer does” (Johnson).
I think that daylight saving time is both helpful and pointless at the same time. Yes it gives the day a little bit more daylight rather than having it be dark but it messes with everyone's sleep schedule and it is sometimes very hard to readjust. I think that abolishing daylight savings and just keeping it forward so the days are lighter would be best and the least of a hassle. I think that if we did abolish daylight saving then the economy would take a little bit of a hit because everyone would be up and doing work and other activities earlier than normal which would cause them to do it for longer than normal. I think that abolishing it would have many pros and cons to affecting people’s health. I think that it would allow everyone to stay on the same sleep pattern as always because the clocks don’t spring forward or backward but then again it may be harder for people to stay up later because it gets darker. I think that if we were to abolish or keep daylight savings then the whole country should agree with it because it would mess up the time zones if only some states abolished it while others didn’t.
Honestly, daylight savings time doesn’t impact my life a whole lot. Other than one or two days to get back my sleep schedule, I don’t even notice the difference. It is possible though that daylight savings time is actually attributing to SAD, or seasonal affectiveness disorder; with the changing of the times, when in the fall and winter it becomes darker sooner and stays darker longer in the morning compared with the stark difference from the amount of sunlight in the spring and summer. This can lead to some people becoming depressed, which is a very serious illness and can affect people’s lives dramatically. I think that if there was a federal decision to abolish or implement daylight savings time there would be an issue because of the widespread fear of change. So many people rely on the practice of routine and having a large power cause a disruption in their familiarity could cause countrywide confusion and possibly outrage.
I believe that daylight saving time is a staple of United States culture and should not be abolished. The idea of preserving daylight is always a good idea in my opinion. Daylight saving allows for a later schedule of sunlight during summer days which makes it much more enjoyable. Being able to have cookouts and swim in the daylight one hour later is a perk that makes the change worth it. I also believe it would become more stressful at this point to abolish daylight saving because people have become so accustomed to the change. The argument of lost sleep does not hold much weight because the same ritual helps you to gain an hour of sleep on another day. And the "health concern" of losing that hour is also offset by the health benefit of being exposed to more sunlight. I think that while there are people who truly believe that daylight saving should be abolished, those people are the minority. I can understand why someone would seek a more "natural" observance of time, but in the end, time is merely a social construct, so shouldn't we be able to tweak it to make it better? By practicing daylight saving, seasons are more easily definable and can therefore be more enjoyable. Also, the scientifically proven health improvements caused by more sunlight are impossible to ignore. So if you believe that daylight savings should be abolished, I urge you to both look at the facts, and spend some more time outside.
After reading this article, I’m a little conflicted. I understand why we set the hours forward in the spring but I don’t understand why we set the hours back in the fall. I think that we should keep the hours set at the time we set it to in the spring all year round. Personally, I think it is better to wake up in the morning with the sun shining and it is also better to have the sun set later in the day. The more daylight the better. I just don’t see any benefits of shortening the amount of daylight. Also, I think keeping the clocks the same would be beneficial for the economy and people’s health. In the article, it is recorded that once the clocks are changed people tend to suffer from heart attacks and strokes. If the time changes weren’t a thing, then these people would most likely not be negatively affected. Overall, I think it would be a good idea for everyone.
In my opinion, daylight savings doesn't benefit me. I often have to compensate for the change in time by shifting my sleep schedule earlier, resulting in my confused brain believing there is more time to sleep or study than is available.
Since we changed the clocks back, I’ve heard an abundance of negative feedback. Many of my peers noted that they have been more drained and more prone to headaches from the change. My parents weren't very thrilled because they had an overlay at the airport to accommodate with losing the hour. On the other hand, I noted it has been better for driving in the morning and at night.
Overall, I think the hassle is worth it. Though it's not a big deal for me, it affects other people. As mentioned in the article, we started this trend during World War II, in order for soldiers to maximize their hours of sunlight in the trenches. Though the war has passed, the practicality within our modern society remains, both within farming and retail. As mentioned in the article, “Retailers found that people shopped and spent more on their way home from work when there was more evening light, and Wall Street investors liked gaining an hour of overlap with trading on the London financial markets.”
Though the time change does not directly impact my life, other than one less hour to sleep, it may play a more practical role in the lives and occupations of others. So in the end, I support daylights saving for others benefit.
I believe that daylight savings time is unhelpful. Although it is nice to have it be brighter out later, I don’t think changing the time twice a year is worth it. It’s annoying to have to change my car clock, all the clocks in my house, and make sure I plan what time I go to bed the night before it changes so my sleeping schedule doesn’t get messed up. I agree with Mr. Chu that we should have perpetual daylight time, and not change it back in the fall. I understand the tradition of it, but now more than ever our generation is extremely busy, and this is just another thing to add to their plate. I think Congress should pass a law making daylight time federally mandated for all states so that we don’t have to deal with the constant hassle.
I think that daylight savings time is fairly helpful with people's day to day lives. I think it is worth the hassle of changing clocks, "losing" and "gaining" an hour of time is a part of life everyone has to go through and adjust to, everywhere all over the world.
I believe that we should preserve daylight savings time because it uses less artificial light during the say, and has longer evenings for people to sleep. I predict that ending daylight savings time would effect the economy in a negative way, because it would be spending more money during the day. Later daylight means more people shopping after work, increasing retail sales, and more people driving, increasing gas and snacks sales for eight months of the year. I think that the decision should be made in different states in different time zones, with keeping daylight savings time. I do not think that the decision should be made for the whole country, because that would be confusing if the whole country had the same time zone. Some people may oppose a federal ruling about the ritual because they are afraid of changing things and are afraid of being voted to lose daylight savings time. But people may support a federal ruling about the ritual because they want to lose daylight savings time, and want to increase the amount of time that is in a day.
I think that daylight savings time is somewhat helpful. It gives people a little more sunlight, for the cost of throwing off their sleep schedule for a little while. I don’t think it is worth the hassle. I think that that throwing off everyones sleep schedule and making the day shorter is worth having more sun. My most important point is the readjustment of everyone's sleep schedule for me. I think it would be better for people's health, not having to adjust their mind to a different schedule. I think it would not affect the economy too much, because I think the lack of a shift in time would not change much at all. I think it should be a whole country decision. It would be very confusing to fly to a state two time zones away, and only have an hour change. People may oppose a federal ruling because of the 1966 bill that allowed individual states to change. However, I think some people may like better that is a country wide change in order to avoid any confusion.
I think if we are going to abolish the daylight savings it needs to be a nationwide decision, to get rid of errors and confusion based on which place has what time. I believe Daylight savings should be updated to better suit today's time however that be. I understand both sides of the arguments.
I think it doesn’t serve much of a purpose, besides making us tired, but by now I’m used to it getting dark early during the winter, and getting dark late during spring. I have heard that some states are wanting to get rid of daylight savings. I’m not too sure on why we have daylight savings besides I heard that a while ago it allowed farmers to vote. It allows us to use as much of the sunlight as we can to our advantage, rather than waste an hour of it. I don’t think the hustle of changing clocks that don’t automatically change is worth it.
Ultimately, time is a manmade concept. Humans made it up to measure life and now everyone’s lives revolve around it. Personally, I think daylight savings is not that big of a deal. As the seasons change, we adjust the time we follow in order to have more or less day time. Entering spring, we lose an hour of sleep. Entering fall, we gain an hour of sleep. In no more than a week this has no effect on us except for more or less daylight. It has never really bothered me besides all of the controversy created because of it. In the end, we have no control over the rotation of the sun and the earth, so why have arguments about changing time. Whatever time is decided as society is what has to be followed or else you really can’t participate in being part of society; so what is the point of arguing. If we keep changing the clocks there will be people causing controversy. If we stop changing the clocks there will still be people causing controversy. In my opinion, daylight savings is not something that is worth arguing about.
Personally, I’ve never completely understood the reason behind daylight saving. I’m aware it may have a positive impact on the economy and encourage people to be outside more often, but the price paid is too high. As people are more likely to get into accidents, I do not believe the economy should be our sole reason for changing our clocks.
I believe we should abolish daylight saving not only because of the possibilities of death, but also the sheer confusion and inconvenience. It’s caused problems in terms of achieving a consensus as a nation. Provinces within the same country often cannot come to a unanimous decision thus creating a bigger border and overall social inconvenience.
If the clocks were unanimously agreed to be left alone, it’s no secret that the economy would suffer. But to what extent? I agree, the amount of shopping done will decrease as there will be a period of which we lose hours of the day, however I do not believe the loss will be fatal. If anything, the well being of people should be the priority, not the amount of shopping being done. If daylight saving is to be abolished, my prediction stands true that the change will be felt, but not to an extreme. The amount of deaths happening on the Monday of the would be daylight saving would decrease.
Daylight savings is something that is currently useless in my opinion. I see no use in my daily life other that getting one more and one less hour of sleep per year. As we use daylight savings time it does become darker later but at the same time it stays darker longer in the morning, as the time changes. To me it is about the logic to the system. We are using daylight savings, but it is deemed useless in some areas. We can opt out, and some have. But we can not “opt in,” as we can’t stay in the savings to where it gets darker later yearound. The effects of ending daylight savings time seem to be at a minimum because we are already at standard time for half a year so when the time come everyone should expect we won’t be changing our clocks. In the article it mentions health effects like stroke. This seems like a bold argument and in mind it doesn’t seem that changing the time has a great connection to health although at some point down the line it might. One day I hope we can stay in the standard.
I do not think it is helpful at all nor have I heard anyone else mention how helpful it may be. I believe it isn’t worth the hassle of having to change clocks that don’t already change automatically, things would be easier if we never lose an hour or gain an extra hour.
The most important reason I believe we should abolish daylight saving is because I don’t think it’s worth the trouble of having to change the clocks, let alone remembering that time has changed. It’s not worth the confusion and even when we gain an hour, you never really hear anything positive about the time change. Changing the time is a waste of time.
Basing it off of what I heard about the effects of daylight saving, ending daylight saving would stop confusion, reduce accidents, and it would reduce the death rate. As for the effects on the economy, unless we end it and I actually see the results for myself, I doubt it would affect the economy so much.
It makes sense to me that if one state or province wants to break away from daylight saving time, the rest of the country will have to follow and adjust their times as well.
Some complain about the dark drive home post work. Some people oppose it because they believe it’s an out of date practice that serves absolutely no purpose in the modern world and causes stress to millions of people with no benefit. I read on some articles that gasoline consumption increases because of the evening activities that require vehicles increases with the extra daylight.
I feel like we should have daylight savings time. Not because there is more sunlight but because it's such a big thing that it can’t be changed. It has been going for 103 years and it can be hard to just get rid of something like that. If you try to get rid of daylight savings than so many people will be messed up because it’s become its own thing, it’s like a holiday for example if you get rid of spring break than people will just be not only outraged but confused and they might think that the holiday is still in effect and it could affect people's day to day life. Say someone doesn’t get the memo that daylight savings isn’t a thing anymore and they set their clocks to what the time would be, now their whole schedule has been messed up by an hour and that may be very confusing for a lot of people. With something as old and celebrated as daylight savings day it can’t just go away without mass confusion or out rage and that’s why I think it should stay.
Daylight savings time is in place to make more use of the daylight and have more time to work with light. This was created for farmers mostly or people who work outside, as having more daylight when you farm is crucial for having more time to take care of your crops and live stock. Nowadays, more people are working in offices, factories, and at home, which negates the reason for daylight savings. So what's the point of having it anyway?
In 1966, laws started to appear for a set date and time for when the time changes around America, but some states have opted out of this law and do not participate. As stated in the article, "But for reasons that historians say remain murky, the law does not allow states to opt in all the way, and choose daylight time year-round. So the California proposal, and a similar bill passed by the Florida Legislature last year, would require an act of Congress to take effect."
More and more people are starting to just see it as a burden or just a way to mess up their sleep schedule. I personally don't believe we need daylight savings in place, as it has virtually no use to us anymore.
Not everyone in the world uses it either. Say you're traveling from Europe, which does use this system, to Brazil, which doesn't. The time change messes up your schedule regardless, and having it spring forward or fall back while you're there would change it even more so. I say that we have a universal agreement to not have daylight savings time so this won't happen.
I have no opinions when it comes to daylight saving, because I feel like I can adapt pretty quickly. Obviously the first morning after daylight saving, I’m more tired, but for me it’s easy to adjust my sleep schedule. I do appreciate the extra sunlight we have though, it just makes the atmosphere a lot more positive in my opinion.
On Sunday, my favorite time of the year started. Being able to be outside for an extra hour makes me feel more awake and productive, and also gives me more free time. Before today, I never considered that losing an hour of sunlight isn’t necessarily required. I thought it was obligatory, even though I didn’t think it was very practical.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I think we should choose to opt out of daylight savings. It is the more logical approach- the article discusses studies that prove injuries spike around daylight savings time, probably because people are not flexible with switching their sleep schedule twice a year. Also, it saves energy to opt out. Losing an hour of sunlight during the fall means we have to use more energy, turning on artificial lights and the heat earlier. We would be more energy-efficient if we still had another hour of sunlight.
Although I believe we should opt out of daylight savings time, I don’t think it would be practical unless all of the United States chose to opt out. If states were on different schedules, it could potentially cause chaos and make it very hard to communicate with each other.