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Why do we observe the Time Change?

Don't tell me it's to help reinforce air raid restrictions. There aren't any air raids, and air raids aren't a seasonal thing anyway.

Don't tell me it has anything to do with crops. Plants don't know what time it is, and we don't actually change the time anyway. We're just changing what we are calling the time.

Don't tell me it's so we can enjoy more daylight after work. That's completely backward. We would need DST more in the winter than in the summer, when the daylight is naturally extended. (Ever try to put a toddler to bed at 8 when it's still light out an 9? Just plain stupid.) Besides, if we can agree by convention to change our clocks, could we not also just agree by convention to do everything an hour earlier without having to lie to ourselves about what time it is?

So no, this answer doesn't fly either.

"Best Answer" to the first person who can give me a LEGITIMATE reason to do this that couldn't be accomplished another way. And if it's such a big deal, why don't we just permanently change our clocks?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    In 1908 the idea was first mooted to provide more daylight hours after work for the training of the Territorial Army and for recreation, to reduce shunting accidents on the railways and to reduce expenditure on lighting.

    A briefing held by the House of Commons Library says that the extra hour of daylight "can be used for work or leisure, rather than possibly being wasted in the mornings while people may be still asleep".

    But it then goes on to say "Exactly the same effect could be achieved by getting up, going to work, and finishing work an hour earlier, which is common practice in Norway and Sweden. Either way, effectively the sun rises one hour later and sets one hour later; the idea is that the extra morning darkness will not be noticed by most people, but the extra hour of light in the evenings will be a bonus for many."

    The fact that this question is still kicking around after so long surely suggests that there aren't definitive answers to some questions, and this is one of them.

  • 4 years ago

    that's the Heisenberg Uncertainty theory, which states which you won't be able to word some thing devoid of fixing it. it rather is totally complicated and includes quantum physics so i do no longer probable know it and somebody else would desire to probable clarify greater suitable. It includes molecules, no longer everyday gadgets, so the alterations could be very confusing to observe interior the entire ingredient. there is likewise Shrodinger's theory of Verschränkung (entanglement), that's many times familiar because of the fact the cat test. in short, in case you positioned poison in a container with a cat (jerkwad), there is an equivalent possibility that the cat will stay or die. yet you are able to no longer understand devoid of commencing the container, which will exchange issues. i'm hoping that helps.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I know it was started during WW2 but why it still continues is beyond me.

    The British government keep saying they're going to stop the clock changing but it hasn't happened yet.

    I think they want to leave it on summer time all year, or double summer time like on the continent.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because you need to get back the hour that you lost in the fall when you went backwards - - sure, it was a mistake but you had to recoup for that error - you would think they would learn, but I doubt it

    Source(s): I live in a country where they don't mess with the time - it just passes
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