The United States should eliminate Daylight Savings Time (DST) because it “affects health and healthcare devices,disturbs sleep patterns,and effects farmer's’ morning productivity,” (excerpted from the excerpt from “Pros & Cons: Daylights Savings Time”) First, it affects health and healthcare devices…
Shughart ends this article with a strong argument stating that it is ludicrous to think that daylight savings time makes an extra hour of natural light available to anyone as the sun will shine the same number of hours per day no matter where your clock’s hands point to. Some people seem to prefer having daylight savings time, while others prefer the opposition. The best option in Shughart’s opinion would be to pick one and stick to it. I find myself as a strong advocate of Shughart and his proposition of picking just one between standard time and daylight savings time. Shughart discusses how daylight savings time just results in people being less productive and the disruption of our circadian rhythms.…
Cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity are all health risks increased exponentially due to this exposure. Melatonin, a natural hormone that regulates your sleep and rest cycle, levels are decreased due to blue-violet light suppressing the secretion of the hormone, which interrupts someone’s natural circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms are a twenty-four hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings. In a study, Harvard researchers gradually shifted the timing of ten people’s circadian rhythms. The results showed an increase in blood sugar levels, causing them to go into a pre-diabetic state, and a decrease in leptin levels, which inhibits hunger.…
The arguments about supporters and critics are well stated facts about DST. Either DST Has a positive or negative affects on the people. It is surely positive because a great mind, such as Ben Franklin is behind the debate of DST. It must be positive. Studied have shown that DST save lives!…
The Daylight savings seems to reduce lighting use, and electricity consumption slightly, but it increases the heating, air conditioning, and gas consumption too. If the Daylight Savings were to be extended to year round, there would be an approximate 0.5% of electricity saved per day for the United States over a four-week span. This averages out to be around enough energy to power one hundred thousand houses for up to a year. From an energy saving stand point, it’s safe to say the current DST isn’t doing much of any…
In the absence of definitive evidence to the contrary, it can be said that this policy has outlived its usefulness in modern times. Like Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Marianas Islands, that do not observe DST, the rest of the United States should follow suit and abolish this policy. By doing so, this country will be better synchronized with the rest of the world and its citizens will avoid negative physiological, social, and economic…
By keeping Daylight Savings Times we give our people the ability to be safe and promote a more energy efficient country. Without it we face rising energy problems and more fatal car accidents. We would have pointless deaths that would have been prevents by just keeping a system in place that already works. It provides so much and takes so little that keeping it is without a doubt the best solution. The nation would be the best it could be and grow by keeping DTS and is important that it stays in…
Have you ever wondered why the U.S does daylight savings time and the rest of the world doesn’t? The U.S has been using daylight savings time for years while other countries have stopped after WW2. In the articles“Pros & Cons: Daylight Savings time” by Proscons.org and the article “The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time” by David Prerau they state that daylight savings is both good and bad. Although some argue that the U.S should eliminate daylight savings, I believe that daylight savings should remain because of the reduced exposure to artificial light and the decreased risk of car accidents involving children in the afternoon. One advantage to daylight savings time is the reduced exposure to artificial light.…
The Downfalls of Daylight Saving Time Why do we have to do daylight saving time. The American states Hawaii and most of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. Losing an hour of sleep in the spring is not necessarily fun. Daylight saving time does more harm than good.…
Daylight Saving Time-- created as a way to conserve daylight and save energy is a practice that dates back to the early 1900s. Most countries have adapted to the practice of turning the clocks ahead one hour in the spring, and then turning them back an hour in the fall. Yet, there’s a lack of knowledge of how and why Daylight Saving Time came about, which has caused a lot of debate over whether it should end once and for all. Daylight Saving Time should be abolished as it has no purpose and causes a great deal of confusion and aggravation, as well as having negative effects on our health.…
right! There is a time that we need to change our clock an hour ahead. This is called Daylight savings Time. According to Merriam Webster Daylight savings time is time usually one hour ahead of standard time. In the summer the U.S (except Arizona) changed their clocks an hour ahead and we lose an hour of…
People are saying that they want them to stop trying to force them to do this task twice a year. People who studied found in the spring losing hours of sleep can cause job injuries and heart attack. Alaska try to get rid of daylight saving time but the business seem to be following the daylight saving time. People are debating some want to stay daylight saving time zone samoe don,t. People say it is hard trying to book a flight because their…
Present Issue Daylight Saving Time is the act of setting clocks either an hour forward or backwards in the month of March and November. This biannual event was created to save energy. However, recently it has been question if Daylight Saving Time is still saving the United States energy. In fact, some claim that it is actually causing more energy to be used (Energy company petitions to eliminate daylight saving time, 2016).…
We all need to remember what we were taught and think about it when we think we might need it, because it will help us in soooooo many ways. D.A.R.E. has helped us now but imagine how it will help us in the future. Even better think about what it will do for the kids that will soon learn about D.A.R.E in the…
By shortening the work week the health of the American workers could be increased. A four day work week also has the potential to help soften the effects of the horrible economy that we are in. with implementing such a plan the carbon footprint that Americans are leaving has a chance to be decreased. Another problem the US is now facing is an increase in people who can’t stop working. And a simple decrease in the work week has the potential to help them become less…