What is the purpose of Daylight saving again?

Question

I'm sure you see the article on Yahoo. Now help me understand. In the midwest last year. We were behind an hour, so what at 8:00 was really 7:00, and instead of the sun going down around 8:00, it goes down at 9:00. Now if California is 3 hours, and do they get daylight saving time too? Am I going to bed earlier or later? What purpose does it serve? I mean wouldn't it be easier to just saty in the time zone your in? It kinda feels like the "Twilight Zone" (ROD STERLING: "Picture a man in the middle of America. On one side its 12:00. But on the otherside, it's 3:00. Now Daylight savings has pushed him...into the Twilight Zone..."Duh DUH duh duh (Repeat a couple times.) Hey, 10 points can be yours, no MATTER what crazy answer you give me Today! =)

To ALL the answerers: That's what I like. Real good solid answers, and no nyuk nyuk!

Answer 1

To save the daylight.

The sun rises early and sets late. If we do not spring forward an hour, it's like the sun is up at 5am and set at 8pm. We have the sun waking us up as early as 5. If time is set forward an hour, we fool ourselves into thinking that we woke up at 6 (even if it is still 5). Go thru our day and wait 'til it gets dark to go bed. Since the sun stays up longer than the standard time, we tend to do more work at work or at home, because technically, it is still daytime. It makes you go to bed late, make you get up early and make you work longer hours,... to whose advantage, you decide. :-)

Yes, california also have DST. And not all countries of the world have daylight savings time.

I personally don't like having different time zones, especially when calling friends, you have to take note of your own and their time for the free (nights) minutes. teehee -.-

Answer 2

The purpose of daylight savings is to reduce energy consumption and therefore reducing the side effects of energy consumption which are pollution and money cost to name a few.
By setting the clocks one hour behind so that we perceive the sun to set down later we will not be turning on our lights (because there would be sunlight) and not using too much heat (since warmth of sun is still better than no sun) until much later in the day when we are about to go to sleep anyway and would not have much need for them.
Yes, California also does daylight savings. They benefit from that too.
Some states or even just some cities or towns in some states do not practice daylight savings though. These are usually places where they are too close to another time zone and people go back and forth a lot between the two time zones that they'd rather have the clocks be the same anyway.
For convenience sake it would be easier to just not change time zones but daylight savings time does a lot of good for the environment and especially our money savings.

Answer 3

DAY easy mark downs? i think of that's a genius concept! It saves lots power that's significant for the ambience. It would not atone for the quantity of power we use, regardless of the undeniable fact that that's a initiate. many countries do no longer do day easy mark downs. You get comparable volume of sleep, different than for an afternoon in an entire 12 months. think of roughly it, you arise an hour in the previous, you sleep an hour in the previous, that's that in case you are able to nod off on the best time. Haha, there have been limitless circumstances the place i've got forgot the substitute my clock and been previous due for college, yet i'm previous due for college all of the time. additionally, certainly my physique clock is messed a week, i won't be able to even awaken on Monday mornings because of the fact i've got completely killed my sound asleep time table by making use of staying up and sound asleep in on the weekends. Now commencing college previous due, there is an concept.

Answer 4

It was moved up this year in an attempt to stimulate the economy. In other words, the government wants us to be more material and buy more crap later in the evening. I also heard the phrase "Gives us more daylight" many, many times. What everyone seems to forget is that changing a clock does not effect the rotation of the earth. So DST does not "create more daylight" as they are claiming.

Answer 5

Good question. I read somewhere that there might be a 1 percent savings in energy. I work with people on the other side of the US and on the other side of the world and time is becoming more and more meaningless.

Anyway, its noon and I feel like I just had breakfast and I'm not looking forward to fighting my body time when I try to wake up tomorrow morning for work.

Answer 6

As I remember, at its inception it allowed farmers to get in a days work and still get to town to shop, etc. before it got too late. Farmers were working more hours than others so it was in consideration of them
Then, during Nixon Administration the US stayed on Summer time through the winter to save on oil to counteract the Mideast Oil Embargo.

Answer 7

According to the talking heads on television, daylight savings time does two things, saves on electricity and encourages people to shop more in the evenings.

Answer 8

What ever the reason(s), they are surely antiquated by now. If anyone is interested in taking advantage of the daylight, they simply need to adjust their own sleeping pattern and/or work hours, and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

Answer 9

To screw us out of an hours sleep and show up at work an hour early.

Answer 10

...simply to allow "us" to have the SUN light source longer on our "time" in the day.... (long story short... it keep us from using utilities as much)...