Is there any real reason behind DST? Personally, I think it's just to keep us on the edge of our seats. Oh, yea, and why was it moved a month early this year?
2007-03-15 04:10:59 · 9 answers · asked by Jim 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I asked this question to an older couple yesterday. They seemed to think that moving the clocks time around had something to do with the amount of sunlight that rains on Earth.
I can understand, possibly, using less light in the morning if the sun is already full well out, but in today's world, many people also work at night. As well, no matter natural light conditions when we wake, we, as a people, use a lot of energy in the morning anyway. Make coffee, take a shower, perhaps some people out there still eat breakfast, etc..
2007-03-15 04:24:44 · update #1
Oh, yea, and why was it moved a month early this year?>>
Its a proven fact that people shop more when there is more light after they get off work. The gov't moved daylight savings forward a month so people would shop and they could make extra money on taxes.
2007-03-15 04:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When Indiana went to daylight savings time last year there was a number of advertisements about how it started. According to the radio it was started by a gentleman that noticed people weren't enjoying the outdoors as much as he thought they should. He figured people (adults and children alike) would go outside more if they had another hour of daylight to use after work or school.
Now that the whole state of Indiana is on daylight savings I can say we are no longer the last stand for sanity on this subject. The only way to increase the amount of daylight in a day is to slow down the earths rotation and I really don't see that happening. If I was a company CEO I would charge the state officials for any lost production due to people coming into work late. After all they did force the counties to go to daylight savings after some refused to do so. If they want it that bad, then they'll pay for it and out of their bank account, not the tax payers.
2007-03-15 22:54:43 · answer #2 · answered by engineer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a pain in the rear end, that's what it is.
It's so we have more daylight hours, otherwise it's still dark at 7 in the morning and still light at 6 in the evening.
It's like having jet lag when the clocks change and by the time I've fully adjusted, it's time to change them again.
2007-03-15 16:51:21 · answer #3 · answered by revoltix 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's supposed to save energy. I'm not sure if it really works. I guess you may run your own experiment by counting the hours of natural light during the day and the number of minutes you use artificial light during the day and compare. Let me know.
2007-03-15 11:18:22 · answer #4 · answered by piri82 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the US, it was done initially to one state, so that maine would not see evenings at 4pm. It is the eastern most state. However, the trend continued to the whole USA. It started in another country though, not sure which. It moved because of Congress passing a law. As to why, anyone can conjecture.
2007-03-15 11:16:09 · answer #5 · answered by Crazy J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It saves the cost of energy. Think about it, would you rather have to get up earlier to be in the sun or wake up later? I like to wake up later myself, and the fact that my energy bill drops this time of the year, i love it!
2007-03-15 11:14:56 · answer #6 · answered by Jon C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To conserve on energy. If the suns out, we won't turn on lights, so they change the time to have more sunlight in the day.
2007-03-15 11:14:06 · answer #7 · answered by treasureyourself 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To save a 100,000 barrels of oil, but mostly is politically driven!
2007-03-15 13:20:46 · answer #8 · answered by Knarf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this year to conserve energy with more day lite. before to give farmers more time to work outside..
2007-03-15 11:17:01 · answer #9 · answered by Grand pa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋