Why do we have day light savings,What is the reason for it,Why is the morning dark and the evening hot/ Sunny?

Question

I always why in the morning its raelly dark and during the late evening its really hot and sunny during day light savings and whats the reason for having day light savings?

Answer 1

Just Click This, You Might Understand... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving

Answer 2

Saving daylight was first mentioned in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin in a humorous letter urging Parisians to save money by getting up earlier to use morning sunlight, thereby burning fewer candles in the evening. Franklin did not mention daylight saving time—he did not propose that clock time be changed. His letter was in the spirit of his earlier proverb "Early to bed and early to rise / Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

In 1905 builder and outdoorsman William Willett invented DST in one of his pre-breakfast horseback rides, where he was dismayed by how many Londoners slept through the best part of a summer day. An avid golfer, Willett also disliked cutting short his round at dusk. Two years later he published a comprehensive proposal for DST which attracted many eminent supporters, including Balfour, Churchill, Lloyd George, and MacDonald. Edward VII also favored DST and had already been using it at Sandringham. However, Prime Minister Asquith opposed the proposal and after many hearings it was narrowly defeated in a Parliament committee vote in 1909. Willett's allies introduced new DST bills every year from 1911 through 1914, to no avail.

World War I changed the political equation. DST was first enacted by a national government by Germany starting April 30, 1916. The United Kingdom soon followed suit, first observing it on May 21, 1916. On June 17, 1917, Newfoundland became the first North American jurisdiction to adopt DST with the Daylight Saving Act of 1917. On March 19, 1918, the U.S. Congress established DST from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. The wartime measure, however, proved unpopular among farmers, and Congress repealed it in 1919. Woodrow Wilson, another avid golfer, vetoed the repeal twice but his second veto was overridden. The history of time in the United States since then has seen several enactments or adjustments of DST, and one repeal, with similar politics involved.

Answer 3

Daylight savings came to because of farming, making sure there is enough light during the day. Since there was an energy bill signed in 2005 I believe, to save energy, they made daylight savings two weeks early.

Answer 4

It's supposed to osave energy by letting people go longer in the Summer without having to turn on lights.

Here, in Arizona, we don't play DST games. We just accept that the Sun rises and sets at different times during the year.

HTH ☺

Doug

Answer 5

cause a while ago they started it for the farmers-- so that they would have more time to harvest stuff. the reason that it is so early this year (instead of in April) is because the gov. wanted to save electricity (so that we would turn off our lights an hour earlier, etc.) i hope this helps!
good luck adjusting!!!

Answer 6

that's the element. What makes it warm? The sunlight. dwindled toned anybody is dwindled because of the fact they (or their ancestors) got here from a place that would not have quite some sunlight. the floor would not might desire to guard itself from something that isn't be a topic for it. darkish toned anybody is darkish because of the fact they stay in places that are warmer, because of the fact there is extra sunlight. the floor darkens to conform so that they might burn yet no longer definitely (some won't burn in any respect). think of of ways that's for a dwindled individual on the coastline all day. in the event that they (like myself) do no longer placed on sunscreen, you are able to wager on getting burned, warm or no longer. an identical is going for shapes of eyes, shapes of noses...the record is going on. that's all relating to the physique adapting to stay to tell the story. All animals are like that. an identical form of animal will seem distinctive in yet another united states of america. Like sheep for occasion.

Answer 7

I believe it was started to help the farmers..now I don't know why except they are saying it is to save energy.

Answer 8

It was design to save energy. To use less electricity

Answer 9

to save energy

Answer 10

It started many years ago. It was intended to give farmers more daylight to harvest their crops.