Can someone tell exactly why we have to have daylight savings time because I hate it.?
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The system began back in the agricultural era where the children also had to work on the farms.  It is thought that cows will only give milk when it is light out, so they changed the clocks so the kids could go do their chores then go to school.
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the United States tried to stay on Daylight Savings Time year round during the energy crisis of the 1970's. This was during Jimmy Carter's term as President. Congress was called back into special session to repeal the law during their Christmas break. The reason, children were being hurt because the vast majority of them were having to catch school buses in the dark.
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There is a very common myth that it has something to do with farmers, but it is actually and energy conservation measure.  The whole idea was originally a big joke made by Benjamin Franklin.  Not all States in the Union do DST, nor do all Counties in every State.\n\nInterestingly enough, in these days of ubiquitous air conditioning, there may be no cost savings in lighting as was originally intended.\n\nThe reality is that the "Spring Forward" portion of DST causes additional traffic fatalities.  It is a dangerous practice that is continued thanks to governmental inertia and constituent apathy.
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They're made so the clock corresponds to daylight.  It was convenient to break the world into one-hour zones, which would give you 24.  The zones are determined by state and national boundaries and population concentrations, so they aren't perfectly straight north-south lines.  But the general result is that the sun is always about highest at noon, no matter where you are.  That only leaves the question of how we determine when we move from one day to the next.  That would be the international date line, running down through the Pacific ocean and carefully avoiding almost everything.
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Click the below links;\n\nhttp://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html\n\nhttp://geography.about.com/cs/daylightsavings/a/dst.htm
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I send mine and the time stamp is PST (Pacific Standard Time). My friend, 50 miles west of me and actually living ON the Pacifc coastline has an EST (Eastern Standard Time) stamp on his. We are smack in the middle of the Pacific Time zone. And the actual times of day don't make sense either. Go figure, huh?
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They say the purpose it to conserve energy. \nBut, we all know it's just to mess everyone up, mess with their minds and their schedules.\n\nSome of these people were a little too happy with their answers. I bet they didn't even change their clocks! ;0)
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Its to make more evening time ( time before lights on ) available to office workers. In UK they even had double-DST during wwII
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because time is changing:\n12:30 12:31 12:32 and go on!!!
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I'm confused by the question.  If you mean, did some act of congress do away with daylight savings time, then no.  Daylight savings time is still alive and well and used over large portions of the world.  In the US, the only states that don't use it are Arizona and Indiana, though Indiana is set to start using it, I hear.
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Because the world has developed a system of time and divided the day into 24 hours we as a world need 24 time zones to seperate the time zones thus 1 zone needs to be first and another last with the other 22 falling inbetween.  We just happen to be in the opposite end of the zone chart maybe if we invented it we could have been first but then what fun would new years be if we couldn't get up at 3am and watch the fireworks from Australia.  If we were first we would be too drunk to see any othe rcelebrations.
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Benjamin Franklin  was among the first Americans to discuss the idea of Daylight Saving Time. In fact, he proposed the idea while serving as U.S. minister to France as a way of conserving the cost of lighting for shops. The purpose has been to essentially utilize more of the daylight hours in spring and summer for daytime activities. Simply put, the Sun is up longer in the sky (rises earlier and sets later) in summer. Clocks and common mechanical timepieces keep what's called civil time, which roughly corresponds to the passage of a fictitious "average" Sun through our sky. This is necessary since the Sun does not rise and set on a regular basis, but changes by as much as 15 minutes throughout the course of the year.\n\nDaylight Saving Time was generally adopted by countries around World War I, but President Wilson repealed the United States' mandatory daylight savings law on March 31, 1918. During World War II, Daylight Savings Time was reestablished by law on a year-round basis, and later seen as a fuel saving measure during the Arab Oil Embargo crisis of 1973-74. In late 1974, standard time was brought back. During World War II, the U.S. and some other countries implemented "double" daylight savings time consisting of a two hour shift.
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Because some people cannot get up at the proper time of day to do their work they do not understand those who do.\n\nThere is the same number of hours of daylight either side of noon so adjust your day to suit that. There is no need to have British Summer Time, Daylight Saving Time, etc so stick to the natural time for your area of the world. That means GMT in the UK
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Daylight Savings Time is practiced is not limited to the U.S. alone.  Many states around the world employ DST.  It's primary justification is energy-savings; By adjust the clock to take advantage of the longer daylight of summer, less artifical light is required.\n\nDaylight Savings was first put into practice by Germany during WorldWar I, and was quickly adopted by the U.S. and much of Europe.
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Daylight Savings Time begins on the First Sunday in April at 2:00 AM, and ends on the last Sunday of October at 2:00 AM.\n\nStarting in 2007:\n\nDaylight Savings Time will begin at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and end at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday of November.  This will provide three more weeks of DST.\n\nBe correct when using time references:\nQuite often I see a letters or messages where someone mentions a time that something is supposed to happen and adds the identifier like CDT, (Central Daylight Time). I'm sure they are trying to appear intelligent but the "Daylight" time reference is not valid in January! It doesn't exist. Same with calling out Eastern Standard Time in June. \n\nYes, I know that these references are actually accurate in Arizona and parts of Ohio.  They don't do the Daylight Savings Time thing.
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I agree with Day Light Savings. I don't think it is stupid. In summer, I don't want to wake up in mid afternoon. Also I like long evenings.
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Daylight Saving Time is there to try to make more efficient use of daylight hours and therefore use less electricity and other resources.\n\nDuring the summer months, there are several hours of daylight before most people are awake.  By moving the clocks forward, everyone in effect gets up one hour earlier and so uses some of that daylight.\n\nThe important bit to remember is that moving the clocks does not actually move time, it just means that we get up earlier and pretend that we haven't.  If you wake up at 6 normally, then moving the clocks forward by an hour means that you actually get up at 5 but your clock tells you that it is 6.  We could all save a lot of hassle twice a year by just leaving the clocks where they are stop pretending that we are still getting up at the same time.\n\nThe attached link has loads of information about it, but it does suffer from the delusion that moving the clocks actually moves time.\n\nQuote "We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening".  Clearly total nonesense.  All it does is mean that we can do something an hour earlier than before but pretend that it is the same time.