Essay On Daylight Savings

Daylight Savings Time is the practice of turning clocks ahead one hour in the spring, and turning them back one hour in the fall. Daylight Savings Time happens in most countries around the world, but at different times during the year. However, daylight savings hasn’t had the best impact in the United States, as it did in other countries. Therefore, daylight savings has had negative consequences on the United States financially, as well as, on the human body. At first, the United States claimed that Daylight Savings was an energy saver, reducing the amount of energy by the public as they had less time to use energy energy during the daylight or evening time. (Source C). The United States Department of transportation even stated that “the total electricity savings associated with daylight amounted to about 1 percent in spring and fall” (Source C). This statement is no more than a false fact. The national Bureau of economic Research conducted a study in 2008 stating that no real energy-saving has ever been recorded from daylight savings (Source F). Actually, the study found instead that “daylight saving time results in an overall increase in residential electricity demand.” (Source F). With people staying home staying home more as a result of having less daylight to move around in, electricity is

Daylight saving time transitions often lead to disrupted sleep cycles. When springing forward, the body needs to adjust to going to sleep earlier, which may leave people restless at night and cause sleepiness the next day. The human body does not follow the schedule for daylight savings and does not easily adjust to it (Source E). In addition, some studies have “ruggerted links between time change and increases in heat attacks, suicides, and accidents” (Source E). It is evident that daylight savings isn’t right for the body which requires a different sleep