Does it still make any sense to observe daylight savings time?
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yes\nit is designed so you can enjoy more sunlight durnig the day and also that you arent woken up by the sunrise before 5 am!\nits definetly a practical institution
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"The change to Daylight Saving Time (not Savings!) allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours."\n\nAs an aside, my birthday is on one of the last days in October, meaning that sometimes I have a 25-hour birthday... at least until 2007, when the time change back from DST will be pushed to the end of November.
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The person above was correct since there are different time zones for different places in the USA.\n\nHere is a site with a map with the current times and the zones:\n\nhttp://www.worldtimezone.com/
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Because it is a political decision and not a scientific decision. Daylight savings time is just the government's way of making you get up an hour early.
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Daylight saving time or daylight savings time (DST) is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually one hour from its official standard time for the duration of the spring and summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "savings" are spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.\n\nDST is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.\n\nGovernments often tout it as an energy conservation measure, on the grounds that it allows more effecive use of natural sunlight resource in summer time. (People go to bed and wake up earlier, which reduces use of electric lights.) Some opponents reject this argument (see below, Criticism).\n\nEuropeans commonly refer to the system as summer time: Irish Summer Time, British Summer Time, and European Summer Time. This is reflected in the time zones names as well, e.g. Central European Time (CET) becomes Central European Summer Time (CEST).\n\nNote that the term commonly used in the United States, daylight savings time, has been criticized by some commentators as being incorrect, for both historic (the name as provided by the act which inaugurated it in the United States is daylight saving time) and grammatical reasons.
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Thats because changing the time has nothing to do with the seasons, its all to do with day length. It was actually abolished in the UK in the late 70's to see what would happen and it proved too dangerous...kids were going to school in the morning in total darkness during the winter.\nThey have it all over the world, its the same in the US, they just call it daylight saving time
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my understanding is that this is a universal ENGLISH yahoo answers, you will find more than just Americans on here, just change the time of day you are on and you will notice the difference.
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Actually a good many countries around the world use the 24 hour clock system. Then there isn't a need to say AM or PM, you know whether its day or night. Also the military begins attacks, movements and such on Greenwich mean time, its a town in Britain. And its used so everyone that aware of an operation knows what time it begins regardless of what part of the world they are in.
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If Daylight Savings Time were observed during the winter, children would be going to school in the dark.  We tried this one year, with DST starting in February.  Kids were going to school in the dark at 7:30 am.  The experiment was not repeated.\n\nWhen I was a kid, DST would start, I think, during the Memorial Day weekend.  Now it starts on the first weekend of April (near Easter, usually) and ends on the last weekend of October (near Halloween).  I think this timing is more appropriate.\n\nThe Wikipedia article on DST states that DST will be extended in 2007, from mid-March to early November, in order to save fuel.  I'm not so sure this is a good idea.
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almost all of the world does.\nthe daylight savings time originated from Woodrow \nwilson.  he wast walking down the street and noticed that many people were using a tremendous amount of light after dark.  this was during wwi, the war to end all wars.  he included in his 14 point speech, which the 14th point is the point that made him most famous.  it outlined the league of nations, the predecessor to the united nations.
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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 saving time (DST), often referred to as daylight 'savings' time, is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually one hour from its official standard time for the duration of the spring and summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "saved" daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.\n\nDST is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.\n\nGovernments often tout it as an energy conservation measure, on the grounds that it allows more effective use of natural sunlight resource in summer time. (People go to bed and wake up earlier, which reduces use of electric lights.) Some opponents reject this argument (see below, Criticism).\n\nEuropeans commonly refer to the system as summer time: Irish Summer Time, British Summer Time, and European Summer Time. This is reflected in the time zones names as well, e.g. Central European Time (CET) becomes Central European Summer Time (CEST)."
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Time to look at a clock
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It's called "Daylight Saving Time". It is believed to save electricity by prolonging the day with one hour.
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Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time and sometimes referred to (some think erroneously - see later) as daylight savings time, is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually by one hour, from its official standard time for the summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "saved" daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.\n\nDST is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.\n\nGovernments often tout it as an energy conservation measure, on the grounds that it allows more effective use of natural sunlight resource in summer time. Since there is less darkness in the "waking day", there is less use of electric lights. Some opponents reject this argument (see below, Criticism).\n\nEuropeans commonly refer to the system as summer time: Irish Summer Time, British Summer Time, and European Summer Time. This is reflected in the time zones names as well, e.g., Central European Time (CET) becomes Central European Summer Time (CEST).\n\nThe word "summer" in this context includes most of spring after the spring equinox and nearly all of autumn (April through October). Likewise, the word "winter" here includes part of autumn and a few weeks in spring (November through March). This varies by time zone, of course, and can change over time as well.
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No one really sets the dates. Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.\n This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "saved" daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.
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Governments actually decide that it's a good idea for their community. The idea is, that if you change the time in certain parts of the year, then people will have more daylight during the times of the day that people are typically up, and it will get dark typically when people usually go to sleep.\n\nThe reason this isn't constant is becuase the world tilts consistently every year as it circles the sun.