does that mean that daylight *wasting* time is beginning?
2007-10-31 04:27:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I've always thought it was designed for people who play golf after work. The farm animals don't change their habits to fit "daylight savings time".
2007-11-03 11:15:20 · answer #1 · answered by Redwitch vt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wonder why we bother.
Further north (e.g. Canada, Europe), sunset and dusk in the summer are already so late that daylight saving time only turns a late sunset in to a ridiculously late one. And in the winter it's dark anyway.
Where I live (49 degrees north), the latest sunset would be 2020 PST, with dusk about 2200 PST. How much later do you want?
I have family who live at 53 degrees north. It's twilight all night in the summer. My brother lives at 64 degrees north, and it's daylight all summer. The sun just dips a little below the horizon, then comes back up again...
2007-10-31 12:02:35 · answer #2 · answered by laurahal42 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Daylight savings was started by Benjamin Franklin..its function was to make better use of the longer daylight hours of summer...now that the nights are getting longer..instead of waking up to go to work and having it still be dark..we go back to standard time which aligns most peoples workday to when the sun is up (at least in the morning anyway)
2007-10-31 11:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by cek2001 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
and why waste daylight in the winter when theres so little of it to begin with?
seems like a bad idea to me...
2007-10-31 11:34:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have always thought they were stupid. I can understand why they were originated, but the time change is outdated and should be done away with. Time zones are really annoying too.
2007-10-31 11:39:03 · answer #5 · answered by Brandon M 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nah. It's just a way for football team owners to get more people into night-games.
2007-10-31 11:34:34 · answer #6 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
go to wikipedia and read the history very interesting how it was founded.
2007-10-31 11:34:48 · answer #7 · answered by Michael M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no it for your safety
2007-10-31 11:31:22 · answer #8 · answered by brutus 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋