Dayllight savings time, whhy cant we set the clock half hour between, and leave the clock alone.?

Answer 1

Hi Diane!

Then you'd have the worst of both worlds!

In winter, the sun wouldn't come up until after 8 a.m.
In summer, the sun would be rising before 5 a.m., and people would say, why are we wasting all that sunshine in the hours before most people wake up, when we could be using it in the evening after we get home from work.

There are, however, places where people have picked up on your idea, and they seem to be contented. One is India. Rather than split their country into time zones, India settled on one time for the entire country, 5 1/2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, and did not adopt Daylight Saving Time. In Calcutta, the the sun comes up really early in summer, while in Bombay, it rises late in the winter.

Others do it without the 1/2 hour business. Saskatchewan, Canada, and Argentina just put their clocks ahead an hour and leave them there permanently, summer and winter.

Russia and Spain put their clocks ahead by an hour, and then decided to do Daylight Saving Time anyway, on top of this. In summer, these countries in effect set their clocks TWO hours ahead of the sun, so that the sun doesn't go down until after 10 p.m.

Answer 2

Why can't we just do away with it all together? Most states don't even do it! Now they decided to change it by three weeks and it may mess up your TV, computer, and other things!