The change also brings a downfall, since many people with traditional 9-to-5 office jobs will no longer see much daylight outside the office on weekdays until next spring. Here are 9 things to know about daylight saving time:. It's daylight saving time not saving's or savings time. It's singular, no matter how people around you say the phrase. Since , daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. Previously, it had started on the last Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday of October.
It was not started to help America's farmers out. According to timeanddate. But Germany popularized daylight saving time after it first set the clocks forward on April 30, , to save coal during World War I. Daylight saving time became a national standard in when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, which was established as a way to continue to conserve energy.
The thinking was if it's light out longer, that's less time you'll need to use the lights in your house. Presently, Hawaii and Arizona are the only two U. In my opinion there is absolutely no value for it to be dark at pm. People are driving home in the dark. Commute auto accidents increase dramatically. We should keep Day Light Savings time all year long. There is no reason not too. DST should have ended long ago! It disrupts sleep, and it's been proven that people have a hard time adjusting to the change in the spring, causing accidents and even health problems due to sleep deprivation.
It serves no purpose except to disrupt the lives of every person in this country. Who is the government to disrupt my natural internal clock which all animals follow?
Standard is our natural time and messing with that messes with my system, my personal system! My body belongs to me, not to a government. Consider the effect on the elderly, babies, children, families where both parents work, the mentally ill etc. Consider the effect on child neglect issues and domestic violence.
Much money is spent to address these issues. Leave them alone. Stop it, there is no need for it any longer, leave it so we have a little more light in the winter afternoons, and longer summer evenings Every year twice for a week my system is messed up until it adjusts. This is not something we need if we ever did. Leaving it DST all the time makes most sense to me, since "standard" isn't even five months anymore.
After all "standard transmission" is now called "manual", since automatic is the most common in vehicles. Or, keep it Standard year round since that's best for our bodies. We have more efficient devices and lighting now than in the 's. Time change sucks, each direction. We should leave the clocks alone and follow the sun. We should follow the cows, the chickens, the huskies, the lyons, the tigers, and every living things that is around. Who are we to disrupt their daily life cycle?
We should learn from them and leave as naturally as possible. Let's follow the sun and the moon instead of the clock and all electronic devices. This ridiculous law needs to be repealed. The native Americans said it best: Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.
I wish DST was year round. Hate seeing it get dark at 4 in the afternoon during the winter. Love the light later.. Who wants it getting dark at 8 in the middle of summer?
I think DST is awful. Time doesn't change. Silly people change time. It makes everyone feel bad. I am always glad when clocks go back to REAL time. I personally cannot stand DST! I absolutely hate driving home from work in the dark. Please stay with standard time! I think DST is ridiculous and we should do away with it. Personally I'm tired of always changing the time for this.
Keep the DST and don't change it again. That's not natural. Why are we always messing with nature? Standard time is the best. It suits our natural rhythm the best. Switching back n forth is not healthy for anyone.
Leave it at Standard time the way it should be. The other is artificial!!!! Unfortunately, even this article continued to mistakenly encourage the idea that Daylight Saving Time gave extra hours of daylight. There are exactly the same hours of light, only the clocks have changed, not the daylight.
There are no advantages, and the disadvantages are great! Linda Trevino Mar 14, Mar 7, Eddie B Jan 16, I think DST should be done away with. I see no reason to change the clocks. Bree Mar 14, Thanks for sharing your opinion, Bree! We appreciate you joining the conversation! We appreciate you joining the discussion and sharing your thoughts, tony!
Visit again soon! Jan 20, Thanks for sharing your opinion, Eddie! Dec 8, Hello, Wonder Friend! You're VERY welcome! Stanley Reed Nov 1, Who started this stupid day light saving time?
Why mes with the clocks? This is stupid and need to stop! Adjust work or school hours to reflect the hours of light! The system is flawed. We actually need to spring forward an hour in the fall and step back an hour in the spring.. Its backwards in its effectiveness. In the winter it now goes dark at 6pm when losing the daylight savings time. So we actually need a winter daylight savings time, not a Summer one! Oct 12, What an interesting idea! SueAnn Oct 6, I don't think they need to change the time ,I work in the late afternoon and when they change the time I have to work in the dark the whole time it would be safer to have light longer and people are doing too many crazy things in their cars and not paying attention, for me its a safety issue.
I have a driving job. Actually Oct 12, Oct 7, Macky Apr 19, I learned a lot from this article!! It is so interesting and i didnt know that there are 70 countries that dont participate in Day Light Savings Time! Wonderopolis Apr 20, Joanne Luce Mar 10, To me it makes more sense to just keep the time the way it is now, with more daylight that extends later in the day.
If you take into consideration all the physical issues the clock changes do to the body,more heart attacks, sleep deprivation and accidents due to "getting used to" the new time set, I think you would find it is better to just keep it one way or the other or split the difference.
Why would we want to continue in this day and age? Wonderopolis Mar 13, I really like daylight savings time in the spring because it means warmer weather is on the way! Wonderopolis Mar 11, Cupcake Mar 9, Wonderopolis Mar 9, Hello, Cupcake!
I do not think changing the time forward useful plus all of us kids lose an hour of sleep!! Which is so not fair!! Owen Morgan Mar 8, How does daylight savings work in countries like Iceland that have it all year round? Caroline Nov 5, My great grandfather fought in World War 1, my grandpa fought in World War 2. They both lived. Wonderopolis Nov 5, Wow, Caroline!
That's very interesting. We're grateful for their service and sacrifice! Maren: Nov 1, I was wondering if you have a wonder about soccer or any sport because I love sports and I wanted to check out what you had to say about them!
Wonderopolis Nov 3, Gary Coghill Oct 24, Benjamin Franklin was not the first person to conceive the idea of Daylight Summer time.
This statement is misleading. He may of been the first person to bring it up within the US, but the idea was invented by George Vernon Hudson in , he was from New Zealand but his idea was first implemented in Germany and Austria in Wonderopolis Oct 24, Julia Mar 10, Wonderopolis Mar 10, We hope you enjoyed this Wonder!
Lin Mar 8, Good article. It makes no sense to change the clock; if businesses want to change to summer hours then do so but DO NOT change the clock. I grew up on a farm and we got up with the sun and worked until sundown Wonderopolis Mar 8, Excellent point, Lin! Wonderopolis Feb 28, WonderGirl Jul 20, My grandpa was in world war 2 and today is his birthday!!!
Wonderopolis Jul 20, Caplin's Class Nov 7, We learned that Benjamin Franklin introduced the idea and eventually the Congress made it official. We were just wondering what year Benjamin Franklin conceived the idea?
We did not know that the people in World War I needed more time to prepare for the war. We learned a new word, equatorial, which means some place near the equator, and we used background knowledge and context clues to help us. We were surprised that some countries do not follow the daylight savings time, including some places in the United States such as HI and AZ. We learned about 70 countries do participate.
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