what is daylight savings?

Question

i keep hearing it but i dont have any idea what the hell it is?

Answer 1

It is used to also help the farmers have more light to work on their crops throughout the summer. Take it from me my parents raised grapes in Cali.

Answer 2

As mentioned before, it's the practise of chaning the time on a clock by 1 hour at 2 periods in the year.


It originated during the late 1700s. It was an idea by Benjamin Franklin to save money ion candles.

It was maintained by farmers (after the creation of electric light), to allow full utilization of the daylight hours.

It no longer serves a purpose to my knowlege.

Answer 3

Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time in British English, is the convention of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in late winter or early spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Details vary by location and change occasionally; see When it starts and stops below.

Governments often promote DST as an energy-conservation measure because it substitutes summer afternoon sunlight for electrical lighting. However, in some cases, DST can increase energy costs.

I think the government's new change on it is so stupid. One week is not going to save any money or energy that they think it will do. Here is another item to put on the list of how our government is failing and messing up us again.

Answer 4

Yeah. By it staying lighter longer people won't have to turn on lights till later at night. Same with the morning.

Answer 5

It is the re-calibrating of clocks (setting them ahead one hour or back one hour) with the goal in mind of getting people to use less energy.

Happens twice a year - once in march, and once in October.

And I think it's stupid.