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. …show more content…
In 2007 the North American rule changed had a cost of about 1 billion dollars that year, and that evidence was supported by William F. Shushart from Utah State University. The estimated cost was thought to be 500 million but it ended up being more than anticipated. Another study was done in 2000, also by William F. Shushart, that showed the daylight-saving effect implied an estimated cost of about 31 billion dollars in one day on U.S. stock exchanges. Also, TV broadcast ratings are never constant throughout the year. According to a study, done by Nielsen holdings PLC, 35.6% of adults 18-49 were watching television in primetime, but in the summer that percent had gone down by 16%. DST not only hurts the economy but demolishes the time we have to spend outside doing
There is a new time zone for the United States, read to see what zone your in!
A while back, I wrote about the death of “TV Time.” This concept was simple—people were spending less time watching TV while sitting on their couches, slave to some arbitrary schedule. Perhaps the article should have been named, “The TV Guide is Dead.” Oh well. Regardless, it got the point across. Less people were watching according to schedule. They wanted to watch when they wanted to watch.
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.
My parents grew up in small town in Mexico. There was a little river that went through part of the town when they were growing up. Every weekend or so they would go out and would go swimming with their families, it almost became a tradition to go swimming there until they noticed that the river 's water level was becoming smaller and smaller. Today there is no river anymore, instead it 's a road that travels through the town. Every time I visit my family in Mexico it would alway be nice and warm up until this year when I went in December. I remember waking up and getting ready to go to my aunt 's house in clothes for warm weather. As I open the door, the cold air punch me and I saw snowflakes falling down. It 's not supposed to snow in that
Should Schools Start Later? Many high school students, including myself, do not get enough sleep. The idea of sleeping in sounds like the best thing ever, especially after those late night study sessions. Often times, teenagers are not able to sleep late because of school or work schedules. There are many side effects of sleep deprivation, but proven benefits of starting days later.
Before Fleming created the Standard Time, people in the 19th century determined the time using the sun. Instead of looking at the clock and knowing the time zone like today, they had to set their clocks to 12 p.m. when the sun reached the highest point. Therefore, if someone travelled to another province by a train, they had to readjust their pocket watch to the appropriate time of a certain province. The unorganized time zone caused great inconvenience for many travellers. Because of the confusion of time changes, "Fleming proposed a standard world time with twenty-four one-hour zones, each covering fifteen degrees of latitude, using one prime meridian to coordinate clocks over the entire globe." When an abundance of people recognized his proposition and supported his idea, the International Meridian Conference was held in Washington, DC in 1884 and initiated to use Fleming's concept of Standard Time. Without Fleming's idea of Standard Time, many tourists who travel across Canada would have missed their trains or planes, making them very distraught. Not only this benefitted Canadians, it also helped other people around the world who lived in a large country, such as United States.
Do you ever want to go on a walk at night? Or, do you ever get a late night craving for food and take a trip to a fast food restaurant to satisfy your hunger? Well if you do, do you ever get hassled by the police? Here in Puyallup there is a strict curfew that residents of this town are not allowed to be out walking around past nine o’clock or be driving past one o’clock, like were all little children. The city of Puyallup is treating us as such. The curfew rules should be changed because we are not all law breaking, petty theft, drug addicts. Not everyone is downtown ignorantly drunk driving and citizens whom have work obligations don’t have normal work schedules.
We are all too familiar with that dreadful screech of the alarm clock in the morning but for high school students across America the rooster crows at a ridiculous hour. High school students groggily stumble out of bed only to underperform academically due to a severe lack of sleep. In my case, particularly, I had to be present in my first class promptly at 7:24 AM. For many in similar situations to myself this means waking up at 6 AM just to have time to get prepared for a treacherous day of school running on abysmal hours of sleep. Brookwood High School needs to reevaluate their schedules and push back the beginning of the school day no earlier than 8:30 AM.
Interesting fact: 86 percent of American adults drive cars and 72 percent believe that people need to limit emitting greenhouse gases (Winke). Where is the connection between American thought and action regarding climate change?
Climate change. The two letter word so feared by scientists, so ignored by the average human being. What is it that makes scientists fear this phrase so much? For the concept of “climate change” has been seen throughout the history of the earths existence. For centuries, our climate has fluctuated through increasing and decreasing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide and climatic cycles. So what is the big deal? The problem, and the reason why this concept instills fear directly into the core of scientists is the rate at which over the past 1,300 years atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen. This unnatural increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, due to the immense amount of anthropogenic burning of oil and coal, affects the transfer
According to a 1997 survey conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, “[A curfew] provides officers an opportunity to intervene with potential issues before problems develop. Periodic sweeps remind the public about the law officer. Curfew enforcement has, in large part, become a part of routine enforcement” (US Conference of Mayors). Most adolescents do not see a logical point in having a curfew, but they don’t always realize that parents and other adults only want what is best for them. Curfews allow for parents to keep an eye on their children, keeping them safe and away from harmful situations. It is important to inform others, adults and teenagers alike, of the advantages of a curfew, in order to allow everyone to take better care of themselves
“The worst threat to man is man himself.” These words, from the recent publication The Great Pearl of Wisdom, are from the open mind of Bangambiki Habyarimana, a man known for his work in the fight against HIV and AIDS. His blatant, cut and dry point of view is a very simple way of stating that humanity has the power to destroy itself, whether directly or indirectly. Indirectly, the human race may bring upon its own doom through the destruction and degradation of its caregiver, provider, and home: the Earth. One of the biggest issues in the modern world is climate change, which is directly related to carbon dioxide emissions and the greenhouse effect. The greatest contributor of CO₂ emissions is the use of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and
Should school start at 7:00 or should it start later in the morning? In Douglas High School, start times are at 7:30 in the morning. Changing the school schedule to a later start time would result in many other changes affecting a lot of people. According to the Sleep Foundation, "The change will affect the entire community, from students and parents to businesses, libraries, police, youth sports clubs, bus drivers and many others." Altering the school schedule would influence numerous aspects of people’s lives. Highly coordinated routines would have to be changed and adapted to the new schedule. A later release time would take time off of students’ free time in the afternoon. Clubs, sports, jobs, and other after-school activities would have
Have you ever stayed up too late? At one time or another most people have probably experienced that feeling where their eyes start to droop and blur. It’s their body telling them they need to sleep… But do they? Many people might think losing a night’s sleep or not sleeping enough is not a big deal, but in fact, continuously lacking sleep does affect people in a bad way. People should know the healthy amount of sleep they need and some solutions to sleeping problems. Sleep deprivation causes physical and mental effects on the human body and can be directly responsible for many fatal accidents.