Daylight Saving Times is something we do here in the United States every year, where we move our clocks back an hour in the fall, and move them forward an hour in the spring. Daylight Saving Time was established during WWI in order to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October. Although it was said to save a lot of energy, today it is extremely difficult to determine the energy saved by this, and it is possible that little or no energy is being saved by Daylight Saving. Which poses the question: Is Daylight Saving necessary in the United States? There are many pros and cons to it, but the cons outnumber the cons, and something should be done about it.
It all started one early morning while Englishman William Willett was horseback riding in London in 1905, where he got the idea that the United Kingdom should move their clocks forward 80 minutes between April and October in order that more people could enjoy the plentiful sunlight. Willet published the brochure “The Waste of Daylight” in 1907, and spent most of his life going around and telling people of the wonders of “summer time.” Every year, the British Parliament turned down the idea, and in 1915, at the age of 58, Willet died without ever seeing his idea come to realization. Finally on April 30, 1916, Germany embraced Daylight Saving Time, and weeks later, the United Kingdom followed suit and introduced “summer time”. Once countries like the United States and the European Nations, saw the positive outcomes of this clock-shifting idea, they implemented the idea as well, in hopes of saving as much energy and Germany and Great Britain seemed to be saving.
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...ore, during, and after the Daylight Saving Time period of 1991 and 1992. They blamed this percentage jump to the lost hour of sleep. We could blame this on many things, but regardless of the reason, there is no denying that changing out clocks has a significant cost in human lives.
While some people say they would miss the late evening light, other love the morning light. In 2007 Congress passed the law that started Daylight Saving Time three weeks earlier and ended it one week later. This change cost United States companies a lot of money to reset automated equipment, and it also put us more out of sync with Asia and Africa. I personally like waking up for the say and seeing line outside. I believe that if it really does save energy, then we should go year round with Daylight Saving Time. And if it doesn’t, then we should drop Daylight Saving Time all together.
Rather than fulfilling its original intent of energy conservation, Daylight Savings Time has not only become an unpopular, discombobulating nuisance but also a potential hazard to public safety and health.
Like all objects, clocks inevitably get dust and dirt on them. The type of cleaning solution used to clean clocks depends on the material the clock is made out of. Usually, liquid cleaning solutions are used because they are cheap, easy to store, and are easier to get into a clock's many nooks and crannies. Hydrocarbon A high-purity-hydrocarbon cleaner is a rinsing agent used after the clock and its internal parts have been cleaned. Hydrocarbons are organic compounds made out of hydrogen and carbon. The solution spreads as an even film and is designed to leave a stain-free surface. Hydrocarbon solutions are safe to use on materials that are sensitive to solvents that contain chlorine. Clock Cleaning Concentrate Solution When clocks are
In Losing Sleep at the Market: The Daylight Saving Anomaly, the author Mark Kamstra discuses how the stock market is affected due to daylight savings. He starts off by informing the reader with background information about sleep. This allows for the reader to understand why the stock market is affected. Kamstra then informs the audience of how daylight savings affects our sleep. The author uses this information to show how the stock market is affected in the period of those two weeks.
Ben Hogan, a famous golfer, once said, “ the only thing a golfer needs is more daylight”. Daylight saving time not only impacts the world’s golf games, it also affects the economy, outdoor activities and comes with many health concerns.Daylight saving time(also know as DST) was used as a way to save energy and have more natural light in the summertime, but it was as affected and it also came with many consequences to the countries and states that still use this time. It was first used in the USA in 1918 and has been on and off for many years , but now DST is used seven months out of the year. There are two times during the year we change the clocks. The first Sunday in March, we “spring forward” with the clocks and the second Sunday in November we “fall back” one hour. However, daylight-saving time should be abolished from the rest of the world that uses this time throughout the year.
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The United State starder should not be a six hour workday. Most company jobs today are at least 8 hours minium or longer. A workday that is only 6 hours daily you earn less money and benifits. You will also end up achieving less at work then you would working a 8 hour day of work. During the Industrail Revolution workers work 11-12 hours a day so we came along way from then but to choose between 6 or 8 hours workday for me it would be 8 hours.
Many opinions come along with Daylight Saving Time due to the possible consequences that result of it. DST is said to increase 3 times the risk of car accidents towards pedestrians (Douma). According to Michael Douma, “Recent research indicates that pedestrian fatalities from cars soar at 6:00pm during the weeks after clocks are set back in the fall.” However the early daylight in the winter helps the younger pedestrians like children and teens see their way to school in the mornings safely. DST is also to be said to bring health problems to society such as depression.The lack of daylight has put 8 percent of people in a sad state of mind as the sun sets early in the winter (Scudellari). This switch also is said to affect those with sleeping problems like
Experts have warned that daylight saving's time is bad for one's health. People have debated about whether we should continue the practice of moving time forward and backwards. Proponents of this argue that daylights savings time helps reduce electricity. People who are opposed to daylights savings time have stated that this practice disrupt's people's sleep schedules.
Daylight savings, the thing that rewards us with an extra hour of sleep in the fall, and what makes us have to wake up one painful hour earlier in the spring. As most of you probably know, we switched our clocks behind for an hour last week. But, why though? We all have most likely heard that daylight savings was created for the benefit of farmers, but that is incorrect.
Various factories, hospitals, police units, and firefighting squads are required to have people on call during all hours of the night. While this requirement does benefit the greater population, it requires a set of employees to stay up all night: working. Although these shifts are necessary for companies to produce products, or to be alert in case of emergencies, there are many downfalls to working this extra time. The care for and safety of employees should be top priority over the amount of product, profit, and similar factors. Understanding the risks that employees face when working night shifts is one issue that should be made more apparent to the supervisors and corporate workers of companies, enabling them to take necessary precautions
Daylight savings has proved to be dangerous as well. Several studies have shown in increase in pedestrian fatalities and car accidents the week after daylight savings, because of the abrupt change in time and people's inability to adjust quickly to such a large change. One study showed an increase of 162 pedestrian fatalities from cars from the week before daylight savings to the week after.
Martin Young, the associate professor of medicine at UAB, believes and can prove that the shift in time that daylight savings causes can throw our “molecular clock” off and lead to sleep deprivation. Obviously sleep deprivation can cause many health related issues but the biggest is the increased risk of heart attacks. Researchers found a slight increase in heart attacks in the week after setting clocks forward for spring.
Daylight saving time is necessary for humanity because it is economical. There are plentiful amount of facts that have proved this as an energy saver. Furthermore, Source B mentions, “Studies done in the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that America’s electricity usage is reduced by about one percent during each day that daylight saving time is in effect.” Some might not observe this as much of a saving,
Daylight savings time has been something that individuals born post World War I have always had implemented in their lives. Many people never really consider the point of daylight savings time until it rolls around twice a year nor do they realize the original purpose. There are approximately 70 countries out of 196 that observe daylight savings time, at least in a portion of the country. Daylight savings time has had many changes throughout the history of it, but is it time to move on? Although there may be advantages such as more natural light, but disadvantages such as the disruptions with our circadian rhythms outweigh the advantages.
Errors are three times more likely to happen on 12 hour shifts than 8 hour shifts. A 2008 study by Pam Anderson and Tina Townsend, proved that fatigue, stress and understaffing contributes to the high percent of medical errors. Anderson and Townsend explore various studies that suggest 12 hour shifts contribute negatively to the medication error rate. In these studies comparing performance of 12 hour shifts, older nurses had difficulty adjusting the circadian rhymes and trouble maintaining work performance during their