would it be a good idea to have daylight savings for a full year?
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Absolutely! It is ridiculous that it is fully dark at 4PM in the winter where I live, yet it doesn't get dark until 10 PM in the summer.  We could at least do away with some of the gap by eliminating the artificial difference by going on daylight saving time permanently.
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jane B answer is very good but it is actually behind G.M.T.\n6 Hours i think is right at this time of year !!!
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The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. \n\nA poll conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation indicated that Americans liked Daylight Saving Time because "there is more light in the evenings / can do more in the evenings."  Some say that the primary reason that Daylight Saving Time is a part of many societies is simply because people like to enjoy long summer evenings, and that reasons such as energy conservation are merely rationalizations.\n\nHowever, Daylight Saving Time does save energy. Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a small but significant amount, about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances. \n\nIn the winter, the afternoon Daylight Saving Time advantage is offset for many people and businesses by the morning's need for more lighting. In spring and fall, the advantage is generally less than one hour. So, Daylight Saving Time saves energy for lighting in all seasons of the year, but it saves least during the four darkest months of winter (November, December, January, and February), when the afternoon advantage is offset by the need for lighting because of late sunrise.\n\nIn addition, less electricity is used because people are home fewer hours during the "longer" days of spring and summer. Most people plan outdoor activities in the extra daylight hours. When people are not at home, they don't turn on the appliances and lights.\n\nThere is a public health benefit to Daylight Saving Time, as it decreases traffic accidents. Several studies in the U.S. and Great Britain have found that the DST daylight shift reduces net traffic accidents and fatalities by close to one percent. An increase in accidents in the dark mornings is more than offset by the evening decrease in accidents.
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If the earth does not rotate on it's axis, then the only way to experience night and day would be the sun's position (as you see it) changing as earth orbits it.\n\nIt takes one full orbit to create one day/night cycle.  So the anwer to your question is "Exactly one year" for an observer who stays in one place.\n\nIf you move around on the earth as it orbits, you can make the "day" as long or as short as you like.  \n\nFor example, suppose that you traveled around the earth at a rate of one circut per year.\n\n- If you moved in the opposite direction as the sun, you would see two "days" in a year.  One "day" was caused by the orbit of the earth around the sun, the other "day" was caused by your traveling around the earth\n\n- If you moved in the same direction as the sun, the sun's apparent position would never change (you would keep up with the sun and the "day" would last forever).
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Judge for yourself based on this: Time is a MAN MADE construction. That is, it is not a natural element in life. For those of you who would argue, please answer how it can be set back and set forward (daylight's saving time). If it were natural you wouldn't be able to limit it to the watches you wear or the clocks on the wall. It would be beyond any human control and it would be very hard for anyone to grasp the concept and explain it. As it is, we CAN explain it and grasp it, therefore, it is not natural.\n\nSo my answer is no.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n.
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From Wikipedia:\n\n"It is sometimes asserted that DST was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris. (Read the full text.) 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 daylight saving time 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 DST between May 21 and October 1, 1916. Then on March 19, 1918, the U.S. Congress established several time zones (which were already in use by railroads and most cities since 1883) and made daylight saving time official (which went into effect on 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 the law was later repealed."\n\nAs you can see, the first country to do it was Germany.\nI don't really know in Canada, but in Europe, it's now synchronized in the European Union (all countries do it on the same day).
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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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Going from winter to summer, the length of the day and night changes a lot in countries that are far away from the equator.  These countries need to change their time in order to save on their electricity bills.\n\nBut in countries that are close to the equator, the length of the day and night doesn't change much during the year.  And there is no advantage for them to change their time.\n\nWhen you live right on the equator, then the length of your day and night are always 12 hours exactly throughout the year.
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An hour or two of personal time is a good thing for me. So yeah, a slightly different schedule would be nice to have.\n\nGood question.
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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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here you have the answer\nhttp://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
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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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Yes, April 2nd marks the start of Daylight Savings Time, where you turn your clock forward one hour.
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No, there is  24 hours over the period of 4 years which we dont account for on a daily basis but it gets added to our calender every 4 years & that year would be called a leap year. The day it falls on would be 29th February which will not be present for the other 3 years.
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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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"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 answer is all geography, baby. Most countries instilled DST in order to give the illusion of an extra hour of daylight for farmers. Also taken into consideration is the normal business hours in a country's work day. Since each country has a different professional culture, each country has different DST standards to meet the needs of the average worker. A handful of countries go back in order to give people more light earlier in the morning and another handful of nations don't even have a DST standard. Just kidding, I made all this up. It's most likely true though so I'll let you stroke my hair if you want. (Just for you) Look! A link!!! >>>>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time