Daylight saving time?

Question

I'm just wondering why some states and countries don't use daylight saving time. For example in the united states, Arizona and Hawaii don't use it but the question is why don't they use it? After all, it does save energy.

Answer 1

I think they don't want all the fuss with changing clocks, restless people, etc., etc.

Answer 2

Because daylight savings time is a stupid idea.

The energy savings a too small to matter (especially if we use nuclear power which doesn't **** up the environment like coal) and even using something which gives off CO2 they're small enough not to be worth the bother of changing clocks and then having an increased accident rate.

Then there's the fact that places close to the equator don't even have the kind of variation in day length that the proponents of stupid time need to justify their idiocy and so there won't even be any energy savings in places like Arizona and Hawaii.

Answer 3

Hi A.

In some places, tradition-bound interests win out, and block the adoption of Daylight Time. Some of the reasons seem just plain foolish to me.

For instance, some argue that turning your clocks ahead is a violation of "God's time." (The same arguments were used against Standard Time, by the way.) If God had wanted us to set our clocks an hour early, He would have placed us in another time zone one hour to the east. In the Moslem world, this argument seems to be winning out, and a few Middle Eastern countries have canceled Daylight Time.

Others who have not figured out how to program their VCRs hate the idea of changing the clocks. I'm not sure how such people cope after a power outage.

Gradually, people are coming around and Daylight Saving Time is winning, at least outside the Islamic world. Western Australia adopted Daylight Time in December 2006 for the first time.

Want to hear the most charming reason for saying no to Daylight Time? It's in Japan, where they say that if there were an extra hour of light in the evenings, children would not stay inside to do their homework!

Answer 4

yeah! sometimes it confuses me as well!