Shouldn't daylight savings time be set the other way around. Recently we set the time back 1 hour, so that in the morning it wouldn't still be dark at 6am. But because of this the day gets dark at around 6pm. Most people start their day after 8am anyways (by then the sun should be up). So wouldn't it make more sense to adjust the time so that the daylight last a little longer into the evening, since most of our fun activities take place after work or school is over.
I do! When I get out of class at 5, I want a good 2 hours to play football with my friends. Who cares if it's still dark in the morning when you're preparing for the day, you're not doing anything fun outdoors anyways.
As a professional third shifter, I would very much appreciate a later sunset. Just 6 would be fine, instead of 5 (the annual minimum where I live). That way I could get up and get my hour of exercise in while it's still light. It would make all the hours of darkness matter less.
As it is now, I usually only catch sunlight at the end of my 'day' and it doesn't matter then as I'm ready to go to bed.
That's one primary argument used for it, along with the claim that it saves the USA 2% of it's annual electricity. But are these facts alone worth hacking the ends off the rest of our days?
The general consensus I'm starting to see hear is that we'd all like DST round the year, not just during the summer. Energy conservation isn't the only positive argumentation for this either. I found a website that argues the benefits of DST, although they themselves aren't arguing for year round: Good reasons for DST.
Perhaps what you said is the truth ,but nowadays you want to change something is going to be really difficult,and not many people wish to change in fact.To break something which is set in stone today I just can't see the possibility of it .
I get it now....we're back on "standard time" but the daylight saving is in the spring.....when sunset all of a sudden is at 8 pm or so. In that sense, I can see the energy savings...and since we have to go back to standard time eventually, this is what we did a couple weeks ago.
That's exactly how it works, Yankee. Although, if we went on year round DST, it would become the de facto 'standard time' although not the technical standard time.
If there were year round DST, we wouldn't have to change the clocks twice a year. Mind you that's a small convenience and the least of the arguments though...
all bow to the hoosier people that don't have to change our clocks.
honestly i wish we took central time zone it makes it so i get to watch better TV since after all the eastern places switch(which is where most of our stations come from) so that they are on the same time as Indiana all my shows go on an hour later.
I find it ironic that we humans are arguing about how many hours of daylight should be in a day. We have no control over nature, but we try to get whatever we can.
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