This ridiculous law needs to be repealed.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. I do not like the change and rarely run into anyone who does! For those who like the concept let them simple wake an hour earlier to go to work and leave the rest of us alone with a consistent time.
The total day length is the same, of course. But, they will have one less hour or one more hour of daylight at the start of each day. We hope this helps clarify.
Skip to main content. You are here Calendar » Holidays and Events. By The Editors. November 4, Tags When is Daylight Saving Time. What do you want to read next? States Object to Changing the Night Sky for March The time change was first instituted in the U. During the Arab oil embargo, when Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC stopped selling petroleum to the United States, Congress even enacted a trial period of year-round daylight saving time in an attempt to save energy.
But the evidence for energy savings is slim. Brighter evenings may save on electric lighting, said Stanton Hadley, a senior researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who helped prepare a report to Congress on extended daylight saving time in But lights have become increasingly efficient, Hadley said, so lighting is responsible for a smaller chunk of total energy consumption than it was a few decades ago.
Heating and cooling probably matter more, and some places may need air-conditioning for the longer, hotter evenings of summer daylight saving time. Hadley and his colleagues found that the four weeks of extra daylight saving time that went into effect in the United States in did save some energy, about half of a percent of what would have otherwise been used on each of those days.
However, Hadley said, the effect of the entire months-long stretch of daylight saving could very well have the opposite effect. A study in Indiana before and after implementation of daylight saving time in some counties found a small increase in residential energy usage. Temporary changes in Australia's daylight saving timing for the summer Olympics of also failed to save any energy, a study found. Part of the trouble with estimating the effect of daylight saving time on energy consumption is that there are so few changes to the policy, making before-and-after comparisons tricky, Hadley told Live Science.
The extension of daylight saving time allowed for a before-and-after comparison of only a few weeks' time. The changes in Indiana and Australia were geographically limited. Ultimately, Hadley said, the energy question probably isn't the real reason the United States sticks with daylight saving time, anyway. Hawaii and Arizona are the two U.
And, every year there are bills put forth to get rid of DST in various states, as not everyone is keen on turning their clocks forward an hour.
Congress to exempt the state from the federal Uniform Time Act. If approved, Florida would remain in DST year-round. Congress would have to amend the Uniform Time Act 15 U. Saving is used here as a verbal adjective a participle. It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger.
Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account. Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings with an 's' flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries. Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. The federal legislation has bipartisan support and six of the 19 states that have enacted laws to make daylight saving permanent are solidly blue.
Lawmakers spearheading and supporting efforts to end the decades-old practice of switching time twice a year appear to be following their constituents wishes, according to an analysis by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Daylight saving time was first imposed more than a century ago as an energy saving measure. In fact, the latest government tweak that extended the daylight saving to 8 months came in a energy bill, according to National Public Radio. But critics say the savings from turning lights out have been overstated, particularly with other types of energy-saving innovations implemented since moving clocks ahead one hour for part of the year was first done in World War I in America and Europe.
With that kind of clout behind it, the momentum to shrink standard time from four months to none will likely build before it fades away. But the medical community will remain the loyal opposition to imposing permanent daylight saving time, the Deseret News has reported.
What both sides seem to agree on is that the biannual time change is a bad idea. Time will tell if permanent daylight saving wins out to be the new standard time in the United States.
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