Wouldn't it be easier to just adjust our activities rather than messing with all our clock's and watches...I asked this once to a write in show and was told there was allot I wasn't considering but then they didn't offer any examples. Can anyone explain this to me? Why not just go into work an hour earlier and quit having to keep resetting all many devices?
2006-09-25 06:34:08 · 14 answers · asked by Edward J 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
we put or clocks forwards and back mainly for scottish school children otherwise they would be trecking to school in the pitch black of night
2006-09-25 06:36:09 · answer #1 · answered by shagkitten21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By changing your activities I believe you mean opening up schools at 7:00 am instead of 8:00 am and going out to lunch at 11:00 am rather than 12:00... which would work as well but then you have to change all the postings of working hours at all the offices and shops and etc and instead of sticking to a fixed timetable people will have to arrange their activities according to the seasons. If you change clocks, life is much easier. The lunch breaks are always at 12:00 so that there is no danger of arriving at the license office at 11:15 to see that people are out for lunch. All you have to do is to correct your clock twice a year.
2006-09-25 06:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by firat c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a bit easier to change a few clocks and watches twice a year rather that confusing everyone in the country.
2006-09-25 06:46:14 · answer #3 · answered by Gordon C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Changing hours of business would involve a tremendous amount of expense for businesses.
Examples:
Business that has their hours posted would have to change them.
Yellow pages ads that have business hours in them would have to include both sets of hours.
All printed train, plane, bus , etc. schedules would have to have both sets of times printed.
2006-09-25 06:58:43 · answer #4 · answered by rt11guru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone in my local told me in winter it was to do with Scotland, that the school children wouldn't have to go to school in the dark, another bloke told me that in the sumertime it gives the farmers more time to harvest their crops
2006-09-25 06:51:51 · answer #5 · answered by Savant 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard years ago that the clocks were put forward or back for their benefit of farmers,so that it is light when they start work early,and the nature of their work .wether this is true i don't know
2006-09-25 11:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by tracej34 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The state of Arizona doesn't even bother to do this...change their clocks
2006-09-25 06:37:24 · answer #7 · answered by starrdevine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rubbish!
2006-09-25 06:51:44 · answer #8 · answered by Stephen C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize how many people would be showing up to work late or early when it is time to change. It gives too many people too many excuses to be late.
2006-09-25 06:44:11 · answer #9 · answered by Shyguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would just simply be too confusing for everyone!
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2006-09-25 09:10:08 · answer #10 · answered by ben 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋