Doesn't it make more sense this autumn to put the clocks back 1/2 an hour and then call it quits? So in the spring nothing changes?
2006-07-29 08:59:24 · 13 answers · asked by Jason 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
too easy lol
2006-07-29 09:03:36 · answer #1 · answered by jyd9999 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some countries do have time zones that are some hours and half an hour before or after Greenwich Mean Time. But obviously it is less complicated to move the clock forward or back a whole hou.
Personally, living in Kent, I do not see why we do not stick with Greenwich Mean Time. If we find it too dark in the mornings in Winter we can simply get up at an earlier time and go to bed earlier!
2006-07-29 09:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by Philosophical Fred 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been under consideration since Franklin first proposed DST. The only reason the USA has not gone on DST year-round is because of the anti-DST lobby which centers on the issue of school children waiting for buses in the dark of winter mornings if DST was year-round.
Personally, I hate DST, I especially hate making the changes twice yearly and I hate the change back to standard time (last Sunday in October) most of all. Coming as it does when the days are becoming shorter, I hate how suddenly my afternoon turns to dusk...!
Living in a punch-clock world sucks as it is, without screwing further with our biological clocks!!!
2006-07-29 09:08:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had to look it up but, I knew that President Ronald Reagen proved that in1996 we saved over 300,000 billions of oil per day, by conserving energy with DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME. This was considered part of "Reaganomics". 70 other Countries participate in the DST. Airlines can't go by this standard for International Flights. The GV meantime in the UK has a variation in this too.
Russia has 9 different Time Zones. Being closer to the Equator makes no difference.
So, I guess economically speaking DST make sense.
2006-07-29 10:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better yet, not change the clocks at all. I hate Daylight Savings Time, as if it really "saves daylight." It's like cutting the bottom inch off a blanket, sewing it on the top, and expecting a longer blanket.
2006-07-29 09:07:15 · answer #5 · answered by Karen J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yes, let's end daylight savings time! Count me in. If this arcane practice continues, then the easy to change clocks in my home will again be reset, and the difficult to change ones will continue you to tick the right time depending on the season they were originally set.
2006-07-29 09:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why put them back or forward at all, it was done in the first instance due to labouring and farming, for the daylight hours, is this necessary now?
2006-07-31 23:17:36 · answer #7 · answered by dianafpacker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was for the schools benefit, so kids weren't walking home in the dark too much
2006-07-29 10:48:40 · answer #8 · answered by linzi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too easy! I realy have never got the point to this one
2006-07-29 11:16:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds logical to me!
2006-07-30 09:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by ASTORROSE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats what I said!
2006-07-29 09:02:57 · answer #11 · answered by Mountaineer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋