Exactly WHO makes the decision regarding "daylight savings time" ??? Who has authorization to change it...

Question

to come earlier this year ?

Answer 1

Congress. Springing forward is just annoying. Falling back--even on a normal schedule--is more problematic.

Think about it: you are at an ATM, and you witdraw money at 1:59;59 am, and by the time the acknowledgment arrives, it's 1:00 am. A transaction just completed about an hour before it was initiated.

This causes all sorts of problems.

To the guy below: every year... that darn Fall-back does screw things up, so I have to be up that night and bring down a bunch of systems before 2:00 AM EST, and then bring them all back up after time falls back to 1:00 AM.

It's horrible for folks who work with large systems that process lots of transactions: again, a transaction cannot post before it was initiated--it would screw up the books and everything (plus most systems just think something's wrong--error checking code).

Doh!

Answer 2

Actually daylight saving time, along with wednesday noon closings by downtown stores and government offices are a hold over from WWII. Daylight saving time allowed the farmers and the general public to be awake and have more daylight working hours. Saved on fuel costs. Wednesdays closings allowed people to go home and work in their gardens, called "victory gardens". Everything was in such shortages that people had to raise their own veggies. Sugar, rubber, gasoline, coal and most everything else was rationed, to ensure that our troops would have the resources they needed to be victorious! As every one knows this kind of feeling and attitude just doesn't exist in todays world! The people of today just don't care, as long as their fat azzes are covered and comfortable!

Answer 3

Changing the daylight savings time effects nothing. All it does is give more daylight during the time most people are awake so they use less energy. It does not effect your sleep except one night in spring you lose an hour. Its not a big deal. For those of you that think it screws a bunch of **** up get over it. It doesn't . If you are worried about using the ATM the night it changes wait an hour until it changes then freakin use it.

Answer 4

Misty-eyed is correct. It was Congress (but not the White House) that chose to do this, under the idea that it will save energy, thus save money. I recall that when Congress passed its bill, experts were saying that it would save energy, but very little of it. I'm heard this week that if there is little energy savings over the next few years, we will revert back to the old dates for daylight savings time. I'm in Canada and we have to follow suit, as the US is Canada's largest trading partner (and vice-versa).

Answer 5

The Congress has been messing around with DST for as long as I can remember (& I have a LONG memory). And they KEEP playing around with it- because alot of BUSINESSES claim people spend more money when days are longer. Problem IS, everytime Congress reauthorizes DST to cover more weeks of the year- it turns out to be a BIG mistake, & they end up changing it back! I think most people wish they'd just leave it alone...- but you know politicians; if it isn't broke- they will break it. :)

Answer 6

Well origanally Ben Franklin came up with the idea and it worked so for the past 300 years we have had day lights savings time but in reality, all the government does is just contact that calendar's printing press.

Answer 7

Your government makes the decision to allow more daylight time for work.

Answer 8

I never heard of it being change until this year but hey who knows I could be wrong and I don't think no one gave the government permission to change anything.
no one wants to work longer hours while there sleeping less it's just plain wrong. do we the people have the right to change this long drawn out war bush has us tried up in that seems to be going no where fast.
I think not. so who in the hell gave them permission to take away good sleeping hours from the hard workers of this world .

Answer 9

Not sure, but probably Bush, he is the "Decider" personally, I wish the thing could be dropped. Arizona and Hawaii don't have it, and it confuses things when crossing time zones. Best wishes

Answer 10

congress changed it to save energy. they estimate using the sun in the evening instead of electricity for those few extra weeks will save 100 million barrels of crude oil. we will "fall back" one week later also. :)