Why do we have daylight savings time?

Because Ben Franklin was a busybody who couldn't stand the idea of people sleeping when the sun was rising!

He also advocated firing cannon at sunrise to wake the town.

The ecliptic of the sun becomes lower from the Summer Solstice to the Winter Solstice and as a result we lose 4 minutes per day on average. The sun rises two minutes later in the morning and sets 2 minutes earlier at night.

The idea is to shift our daylight hours so we get up one hour later by going back to standard time so it won’t be dark out for the average person who gets up at 6 or 7 am. The reverse is true for the time between the Winter Solstice and the Summer Solstice.

So daylight savings time will get us up earlier, because the day light is approximately 6 hours longer at the time of the solstice as compared to the winter solstice. This is true for 42N degrees latitude.

By the way" i don't like it." We should be at either standard time or day light savings time always.

Modern DST was first proposed in 1907 by Englishman William Willett.

Adding daylight to afternoons generally benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but it can cause problems for farmers and others whose hours depend on the sun. Extra afternoon daylight appears to cut traffic fatalities; its effect on health and crime is less clear. An early goal was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, especially during World War 1 (it began in Europe in 1916).

There is a lot of controversy now about the validity and practicality of DST, but until there is an international agreement we aren't likely to see it abolished in the near future.

It's a way to save energy. Daylight Saving Time gives us the opportunity to enjoy sunny summer evenings by moving our clocks an hour forward in the spring.

Yet, the implementation of Daylight Saving Time has been fraught with controversy since Benjamin Franklin first conceived of the idea. Even today, regions and countries routinely change their approaches to Daylight Saving Time.

It's supposed to cut down on the amount of electricity used by giving us more light when we use it more. I think it's a bit bogus, and I don't care for it either. I think next time it comes around, we move the clocks half an hour, and then leave it be.

politics.

should've never given the guys in washington the power to actually change things. in a perfect world they would only be allowed blunted scissors and maybe some paste if they promise not to eat it.