Why do we still switch back & forth to Daylight Savings Time, in this era of corporate farms?
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Farming was not the issue when we began using daylight savings time (an idea originally proposed by Benjamin Franklin) small farmers always worked from daylight to dark anyway. Not by a clock. It is urban areas with 9 to 5 workers that benefit from daylight savings time.
901372
In Australia only some states still have daylight savings. Queensland got rid of it for a number of reasons. One being that the farmers complained it was upsetting the cows timetable.
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It has to do with time differences in work hours.
974693
That sounds awesome, would be hard getting used to, and the company you were working for would have to totally be commited to that... But it would be a nice change to have every day be different and everything.  One day, darkness, next light, breakfast at sunset, sun all weekend... Would be cool.
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Everyone i have read is WRONG, so far...\n\nThe clocks move the accommodate the farmers... not that townies think much of them.\n\nA farmer has to be able to work in largely daylight to see... and without the clock changed their days would get more difficult as the seasons progress as most dairy farmers have to be awake and working at 5-6am.\n\nSo thats why...\n\nIn a nutshell its to help farmers.
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It's partly because of school children, when clocks go back like last week, it is lighter in the mornings making it safer for them to walk to school.  When the children go home in the afternoon, it is still light enough despite it getting darker an hour earlier.\nWhy not leave the clocks there?  It is because farmers in the summer like to have an extra hour of light in the evenings so they can get more work done.  In general people like to have light longer in the evenings, especially when sitting out in the sunshine.\n\nIt does seem odd to keep messing with the clocks - some people go into work an hour early or late because they forget to change them.  My son has a Sunday job and he was up an hour earlier than he needed to be last weekend.  I just had an extra hour in bed - it does have some uses!\n\nPersonally I don't really mind the changes - in autumn it makes it feel like Christmas is nearly here, and in spring it cheers me up because summer and long evenings are on their way.
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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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Why, aren't they two of the many regions that remain on "standard time" year-round? \n\nIt's controversial, but some people say this approach is the way of the future.
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here you have the answer\nhttp://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
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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\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\nIt is sometimes asserted that DST was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris. However, the article was humorous; Franklin was not proposing DST, but rather that people should get up and go to bed earlier.\n\nIt was first seriously proposed by William Willett in the "Waste of Daylight", published in 1907, but he was unable to get the British government to adopt it, despite considerable lobbying.\n\nThe idea of DST was first put into practice by the German government during the First World War, between April 30 and October 1, 1916. Shortly afterward, the United Kingdom followed suit, first adopting it between May 21 and October 1, 1916. On March 19, 1918, the U.S. Congress established several time zones (which had been in use by railroads and most cities since 1883) and made DST official, effective March 31, for the remainder of World War I. It was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. The law, however, proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose and went to bed earlier than in current times) that it was later repealed.\n\nDST is generally a temperate zone practice; day lengths in the tropics do not vary enough to justify DST. Hawaii and Arizona are the only U.S. states that do not observe DST.\n\nThe amount of the time shift varies, but one hour is the most common. The dates of the beginning and ending of DST also vary by country. With a few exceptions, switchovers between standard time and DST generally occur in the early hours of a Sunday morning, because doing so then causes less disruption than a change on a weekday would.\n\nDST commonly begins in the northern hemisphere on the last Sunday in March or the first Sunday in April, and ends on the last Sunday in October. However, beginning in 2007, the United States will begin observing DST from the second Sunday in March until the first Sunday in November. If no energy savings can be shown from the extension after the U.S. Department of Energy completes a study of impact of the change, Congress may revert back to the schedule set in 1986 under Section 110 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Since 2002, the European Union has fixed the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October as start and end dates (European Summer Time).\n\nIn the southern hemisphere, the beginning and ending dates are switched; therefore, the time difference between the United Kingdom and Chile may be 4, 5 or 6 hours, depending on the time of year.\n\nThe U.S. federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 mandated that DST begin nationwide on the last Sunday in April and end on the last Sunday in October, effective in 1967. Any state that wanted to be exempt from DST could do so by passing a state law, provided that it exempted the entire state. The law was amended in 1972 to permit states that straddle a time zone boundary to exempt the entire area of the state lying in one time zone. On July 8, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1986 into law, which amended the starting date of DST to the first Sunday in April, to take effect the following year.\n\nIn response to the 1973 energy crisis, DST in the United States began earlier in both 1974 and 1975, commencing on the first Sunday in January (January 6) in the former y
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Daylight Saving Time (or Summer Time as it is called in many countries) is a way of getting more out of the summer days by advancing the clocks by one hour during the summer. Then, the sun will appear to rise one hour later in the morning when people are usually asleep anyway, at the benefit of one hour longer evenings when awake: The sunset and sunrise are one hour later than during normal time. \n\nDST could save energy (less artificial light is needed during the evening) and make the country more efficient in addition to the pleasing effect of lighter evenings. \n\nTo make DST work, the clocks have to be adjusted one hour ahead when DST begins (during spring), and adjusted back one hour to standard time every autumn. There are many countries observing DST, and many who do not. \n\nBenjamin Franklin suggested the method in 1784, but it was first during World War I, in 1916 in several counties in Europe that DST was adopted, although it was proposed several times before, but rejected.
221957
It has always seemed odd to me to have daylight savings time in the summer when the days are already naturally longer.  It is logical to me to at least try using it in the winter or not at all.
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Four hours after you left (assuming you spent no time at your destination), and yet you were travelling back toward home at 2am Sunday morning in the spring when the country goes on "daylight savings time."\n\nIf that's the wrong answer, your informatio for answering the question was incomplete.
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Yes actually. When Ben Franklin was arguing with the Creator about his roll in the daily lives of men, he had to excuse himself because of an appointment. That lead to a discussion of time and time keeping, and God said he was partial to the old system where daylight was divided into twelve hours and so was the dark. Anyhow eventually the Lord suggested daylight savings time as a compromise.
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You have your time zone settings set to a zone an hour behind yours.... its not the daylight savings times options fault.\n\nMy guess you have set your clock to a zone that matches your time zone whilst daylight savings was in operation, such as GMT... now summer is over it has automatically taken the hour off, as it should, which as revealed the  time zone error.\n\njust double click your clock and the clock configuration box will open. go to the time zone and check that the correct zone is selected. \n\nIf it still does it, you may requesting the time from the wrong server.. you can adjust this on the internet time tab.  as long as the time zone is set correct, it trial and error to choose the correct server.\n\nif this still does not resolve it.. you can work around it by simply setting a time zone that is one hour ahead of yours... which would give you the correct time.\n\nRemember if you are successful and find the correct zone and the clock works ok..... and then it gets to summer and it automatically goes ahead one hour, and you are not in an area that does that... just uncheck the daylight savings box in the zone settings tab.\n\nGood luck!
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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.
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The purpose of different time zones is so that when it is noon, the sun will be roughly overhead. We do not need to use time zones. It is just convention. Time zones and standard time only became necessary when the railroads arrived, and people started to worry about schedules.\n\nYou are not losing or gaining hours from your life directly when you move to a different time zone of course. You might be adding or subtracting stresses and other factors from your life that might have some indirect effect on the length of your life. And of course, travel and moving are not completely without risk.