Why is there Daylight Saving Time?

Answer 1

Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Saving Time in 1784, but modern DST was not proposed until 1895 when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a proposal for a two-hour daylight saving shift to the Wellington Philosophical Society.

The conception of DST was mainly credited to an English builder, William Willett in 1905, when he presented the idea to advance the clock during the summer months. His proposal was published two years later and introduced to the House of Commons in February 1908. The first Daylight Saving Bill was examined by a select committee but was never made into a law. It wasn't until World War I, in 1916, that DST was adopted and implemented by several countries in Europe who initially rejected the idea.

Why There Is DST

It is believed that Daylight Saving Time was implemented a long time ago to give farmers more "sunlight" time to farm in relation to routine working hours of those other industries which must work in with farmers but also need to tailor their schedules to best fit the needs of consumers and other businesses.

The History...

In more recent times, DST was implemented in 1918 to save fuel and electricity (energy) but during World War I was repealed in 1919. DST was reinstated during World War II also as a method to save energy. In 1973 it was officially established for use in the winter season, for the same purpose, a fuel/energy saving measure.

It has also been shown in studies that traffic accidents are reduced by a substantial amount by making the adjustment for Daylight Saving Time. Increased accidents in the morning are far outweighed by the reduction of accidents in the evening. DST is an outdated practice that doesn't save anything and even increases the rate of heart attacks and accidents. www.standardtime.com

Additional Reasons For Daylight Saving Time

• Daylight saving time is meant to save energy specifically electric power. There is more human activity in the early evening than in the early morning. By shifting the time such that it gets dark later, people will use less electric lighting and this saves electricity. During WW2, the USA instituted double daylight saving time (2 hours ahead) during the summer months. We go off daylight saving time during the winter months because it is not prudent to have all the children going to school in the dark.
• Japan doesn't do it. When i was there it got light at 5:00 AM and was dark at 6:00 PM. I was told the government there wants people to work more and not play as much.
• Daylights saving time used to saves time and light. Daylight saving time was started to save energy.Today in our global 24/7 global society it doesn't save anything. It shifts our experience of daylight and it has no effect at all on the actual passage of time or the actual length of daylight. But it would be strange if we called it Daylight Shifting Time, wouldn't it?
• The basis for daylight savings time is that it provides energy savings and extra time for family activities. Many see it as the equivalent to cutting off the bottom of your blanket and sewing it to the top if the blanket is too short for your bed. The recent double daylight time makes matters even worse with many drawbacks.
• Studies in many jurisdictions indicate that energy savings due to DST are non-existent, people have to turn on their light in the morning to see to get ready for work (instead of at night) ad most activities in our society (offices etc.) are clock based not sun based, family activities do not increase - kids have to be in bed for school and parents for work regardless of where the sun is, farmers don;t care, they are up with the sun (not the clock) and work until sundown, in areas north of the southern states the sun isn't up until 8:00 in the fall under DST so kids are going to school in the dark, the change from DST to sun time provides two periods in the morning and evening in the spring and fall where the sun gets in your eyes on the way to and from work.

Answer 2

Daylight Saving Time was originally implemented to save energy by making better use of daylight during longer days of the year. It was also intended to reduce the need for artificial lighting, thus saving on electricity. However, the benefits of Daylight Saving Time are still debated and its effectiveness in achieving energy savings is unclear.

Answer 3

Personally, I am amazed that it has taken this long for someone to ask this question.

This question is asked in two parts, so I will answer it in kind.

As we are taught from childhood, all living things on earth depend on the sun to exist. The sun provides the energy that is the sustenance of the chemical processes of life. We are also taught that the sun is burning, and will eventually burn itself out.

While time-lines for this process are usually measured in billions of years, in truth, the demise of the sun is far closer than our governments would have us know. In some highly-regarded technical circles, the time-line is often given in terms of decades. Of course, this could never be allowed to become common-knowledge, for the disastrous social outcome that would ensue.

In an effort to prepare for this eventuality (and in an uncommon gathering of nations for the common good), daylight is being stockpiled, or if you prefer, "saved". Due to the storage medium that is used (more on that to follow) and the technology involved in saving the daylight, the process cannot be performed during the entire year; the resultant daylight-overload and subsequent energy release would be disastrous. It was determined early-on that the maximum amount of daylight that could be stored continuously would be the amount that would be collected during approximately one-half of a year. The other one-half year would be required to allow for the cooling of the process, and the even distribution of the daylight within the storage medium. Hence, daylight-savings-time occurs in continuous segments, during approximately one half of each calendar year, since its inception.

The daylight is being kept in the ionosphere. The process by which it is gathered and subsequently stored (a VERY-well kept secret) reduces the illumination of the daylight to near zero lumens. This is done for two reasons: first (and foremost) the illumination is drastically reduced to maintain the energy that is contained within the daylight.

Think of the daylight as a battery. A common, household battery contains an amazing amount of energy, especially when it is released en-masse. As we know, doing so would render the battery "dead" and therefore useless. However, if the energy within a battery is released gradually, it (the battery) will provide an extended, useful service life. The same applies to the daylight being saved. If a very, very low amount of it is used (hence, the very low illumination), its energy will be available when it is needed.

The second reason for the drastic reduction in the illumination of the saved daylight is simply to keep its presence in the ionosphere from becoming common-knowledge. If the available illumination of all of the saved daylight were to be released, darkness, in any form, on the face of the Earth would cease to exist. Eventually, this would be noticed by the populace.

Unfortunately, while the collection process for daylight-savings-time is brilliantly (no pun intended) efficient, the storage process (and the medium itself) is less than ideal. This is evidenced by the all-too-common phenomenon known as "lightning".

Lightning is the unavoidable, instantaneous release of small amounts of full-illumination, saved daylight. The accompanying sound, commonly-known as "thunder", is actually the audible indication of the puncturing of the ionosphere, thereby providing the egress-point of the saved daylight, or "lightning", if you will.

The light which was saved contained "momentum" in the direction of the surface of the earth. During its storage in the ionosphere, this momentum is maintained, thereby accounting for the propensity of the lightning to resume the path it was on when it was "saved". This is why lightning always travels toward the earth, and never away from it.

It wasn't until massive amounts of saved-daylight had been stored in the ionosphere that the inherent weakness in the choice of the ionosphere as the storage medium for the saved daylight was determined. Each time a release of full-illumination, saved-daylight occurs, a hole (as referenced above) is caused in the ionosphere. While such "holes" are quite small (measured at 0.0000~yahdee~yahda~001/2 mm), their tendency to accumulate in one location has become an issue of late. The resulting centralized hole in the ionosphere has been blamed upon such factors as aerosol-spray-propellant and other greenhouse gasses (a concept conceived and distributed as disinformation by the federal governments of most nations, in an effort to obfuscate the actual circumstances surrounding the development of the hole itself).

Currently, the mechanism for the utilization of the saved-daylight is under development. The best estimates for the time of its completion are within the time-frame of a few billion years, providing (of course) there are no cost over-runs.

As all of this is absolute-top-secret, I must ask that those of you who read this offering DO NOT distribute the information contained within. Or not.

SO THERE!!

Answer 4

Because some egghead thought that by setting the clocks forward during the summer months, we could save a little bit of electricity. The sun will be up "later", so people wouldn't need lights on in their homes during some part of the evening hours. At least, that was the theory.

Answer 5

Daylight Saving Time is intended to permit work and play to extend into the evening hours in summer with longer periods of daylight than would be the case without it. It was originally developed at a time when natural lighting was more important to work and play than it is today, and the availability of actual daylight well into a summer evening permitted greater summer activity.

Answer 6

Benjamin Franklin first invented daylight savings while in France. He stated in a public letter to the people in Paris that they should economize by rationing candles, using daylight wisely, and by waking citizens with church bells and cannons firing. Ben Franklin's invention is still be using in distant countries today!

Answer 7

we voted to cancel daylight savings time but the government was to focused on impeching trump

Answer 8

Benjamin Franklin suggested it to "save on tallow and wax" (candles).

Answer 9

Daylight Saving Time is good for saving electricity

Answer 10

The proper term is Daylight Saving Time.