Daylight Savings Time

[foozball]

Wouldn't it make more sense to switch daylight savings time? By that I mean "Fall Forward" and "Spring Back?"

I say that because I live in Houston where it gets a bazillion degrees outside. In the spring and summer, it stays daylight longer into the evening. It gets darker around 8PM, which means it's hot from about 1-7:30PM and we use more energy for A/C during those times. If it got darker at 7PM, we wouldn't have to tolerate the heat for so long and we'd use less energy.

In the winter, it gets dark early, which means it gets colder earlier in the day. If we have an extra hour of daylight, we have an extra hour of warmth in the evening so we wouldn't have to turn the heat up so early. I know you can say that the extra hour is made up for in the morning, but we're either out the door on the way to school or work by then.

There are economic effects related to daylight savings, but we're simply switching them, not cancelling it, so the benefits are still there, they just happen during a different season.

But really, my reasoning is during the summer, it stays hotter longer since it stays light outside until 8PM here and I hate going outside in the heat.

[Primetime21]

But Spring Foward and Fall Back is so catchy.

[PackerLegend]

Umm it doesn't matter what time your clock says its going to be just as hot or cold for just as long if u switch the time. You dont need A/C to survive but yes its very nice but again it doesn't matter what time your clock says, it depends how much u open the door with A/C on if u want to save energy. In the winter again it doesnt matter what time the clock says your house needs to be insulated good and don't open the door 23456754 times.

[Staubach12]

But Spring Foward and Fall Back is so catchy.

He speaks the truth.

[YAYareaRB]

Not everyone lives Houston..

[AllDayFootball724]

I thought its was Spring ahead, Fall back.

[PackerLegend]

I thought its was Spring ahead, Fall back.

It is, he is saying it should be switched.

[fenikz]

I live in Arizona we don't use day light savings time

[YAYareaRB]

I think we should keep the same time all year round and get used to the darkness because this DLS ***** with my head

[JagHombre22]

I don't even know why we still use it....it was concocted in the time of World War 2 so there would more daylight so they could build more ships and stuff like that....I never understood why they kept it after the war...

[doingthisinsteadofwork]

I say that because I live in Houston where it gets a bazillion degrees outside. In the spring and summer, it stays daylight longer into the evening. It gets darker around 8PM, which means it's hot from about 1-7:30PM and we use more energy for A/C during those times. If it got darker at 7PM, we wouldn't have to tolerate the heat for so long and we'd use less energy.
It wouldnt save energy youd just use the a/c from 12 to 6:30.same amount of time.

[VoteLynnSwan]

don't forget however that air conditioning requires significantly more energy than the standard heating system.

the original poster makes a valid argument however... if you're in a hot climate, it makes sense to reverse it, or at least not use it. I'd imagine that that's why Arizona doesn't use daylight savings time...

but ultimately, a large portion of this country doesn't live in the south... up here it's only really hot from about 12-3... after that it begins cooling down, so i'd rather have the extra hour of sunlight in the summer where i can go outside and do something rather than having that extra hour in the morning when i will most certainly be asleep.

[Paranoidmoonduck]

Who the hell springs back?

Communists, that's who.

[familyguy555]

I don't even know why we still use it....it was concocted in the time of World War 2 so there would more daylight so they could build more ships and stuff like that....I never understood why they kept it after the war...

I thought it was so farmers could have more daylight to make more money...

[Cashmoney]

I wish it was summer all the time.

[JagHombre22]

I thought it was so farmers could have more daylight to make more money...

that could be another reason, but I know it was definitely for the war...

[thule]

It definately had to do with war...and keeping us less susceptible to air striking certain area's.

[EvilMonkey]

Some guy proposed it like 10 years before WWI because he wanted an extra hour of light to golf more or something, but it wasnt adopted til WWI. Farmers never really had anything to do with it. It gives them an extra hour in the summer and does help them out and crap i guess, but it started with a guy who wanted to golf more and was passed pretty much all over the world during WWI, benefiting farmers was just a side effect.

[thule]

Some guy proposed it like 10 years before WWI because he wanted an extra hour of light to golf more or something, but it wasnt adopted til WWI. Farmers never really had anything to do with it. It gives them an extra hour in the summer and does help them out and crap i guess, but it started with a guy who wanted to golf more and was passed pretty much all over the world during WWI, benefiting farmers was just a side effect.

That is one of the worst reasonings I've ever heard.

This was set in place by the government due to war....and had to do with energy conservation.

Daylight Saving Time has been used in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. At that time, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11:00 p.m. on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October. Other countries immediately adopted this 1916 action: Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Tasmania. Nova Scotia and Manitoba adopted it as well, with Britain following suit three weeks later, on May 21, 1916. In 1917, Australia and Newfoundland began saving daylight.

The plan was not formally adopted in the U.S. until 1918. 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States' was enacted on March 19, 1918. [See law]It both established standard time zones and set summer DST to begin on March 31, 1918. Daylight Saving Time was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. After the War ended, the law proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose earlier and went to bed earlier than people do today) that it was repealed in 1919 with a Congressional override of President Wilson's veto. Daylight Saving Time became a local option, and was continued in a few states, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and in some cities, such as New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called "War Time," from February 9, 1942 to September 30, 1945. [See law] From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law regarding Daylight Saving Time, so states and localities were free to choose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time and could choose when it began and ended. This understandably caused confusion, especially for the broadcasting industry, as well as for railways, airlines, and bus companies. Because of the different local customs and laws, radio and TV stations and the transportation companies had to publish new schedules every time a state or town began or ended Daylight Saving Time.

On January 4, 1974, President Nixon signed into law the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973. Then, beginning on January 6, 1974, implementing the Daylight Saving Time Energy Act, clocks were set ahead. On October 5, 1974, Congress amended the Act, and Standard Time returned on October 27, 1974. Daylight Saving Time resumed on February 23, 1975 and ended on October 26, 1975.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html