Daylight savings time happens when we adjust the time to achieve longer evening daylight in the summer by setting the clocks an hour ahead of standard time. Daylight savings time is causing a lot of controversy among people online. Some people believe we should keep it as it is, switching time twice a year, others say they want permanent standard time and some say they want permanent daylight savings time. The three articles - “Why did daylight saving time start? Here’s what you need to know,” by Cara Tabachinck, “Switching the Clock Twice a Year Isn’t Just Annoying”. It’s Deadly,” by Laura Prugh, and “Daylight Saving Time Debate Comes Back Around — Again,” by Today, all talk about the effects of daylight saving time. The texts and their points
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Prugh explains the process of making the switch permanent and how it would have to be an act of Congress. She also explains how our evenings would be “shrouded in more darkness, which often comes with higher crime, more vehicle collisions, and fewer opportunities to enjoy the outdoors after work and school.” Research shows that standard time leads to more collisions with deer and that staying on daylight saving time throughout the whole year would “prevent an estimated 36,550 collisions between deer and vehicles.” Prugh explains that traffic accidents are also higher in standard time, and the support for standard time has grown recently. Parents are worried about sending their children to school in the dark as collisions with teenagers have increased. Permanent daylight saving time, “would prevent hundreds of traffic deaths and tens of thousands of collisions between deer and vehicles, and robberies would drop by 7 percent.” The author ends the article by saying how we should make the change now, to reduce the risks of standard time and the greater risk of state …show more content…
Some people see the bright side that spring is coming and they are having longer days, and “Oregon state passed a bill that would make standard time permanent, but only in California and Washington do the same.” Many people agree with daylight savings time and say it would give them more time to do things and “studies show a rise in car accidents and ER accidents after springing clocks forward, and a new study shows an effect of daylight savings time on heart health is likely minimum.” In Congress, the time changes have been considered over long decades with bills that have been pushed back to the mid- introduced and people are starting to want more daylight savings time while others want standard time as it allows us to have more sleep and sunlight in the morning. People don’t want to wake up in the dark and the whole reason they want more standard time, is to get that light in the morning, but there are also some benefits to daylight savings times, like fixing the sleep schedule and re-adjusting our routine. The controversy over daylight saving time continues, but each side has reasonable
Prugh explains the process of making the switch permanent and how it would have to be an act of Congress. She also explains how our evenings would be “shrouded in more darkness, which often comes with higher crime, more vehicle collisions, and fewer opportunities to enjoy the outdoors after work and school.” Research shows that standard time leads to more collisions with deer and that staying on daylight saving time throughout the whole year would “prevent an estimated 36,550 collisions between deer and vehicles.” Prugh explains that traffic accidents are also higher in standard time, and the support for standard time has grown recently. Parents are worried about sending their children to school in the dark as collisions with teenagers have increased. Permanent daylight saving time, “would prevent hundreds of traffic deaths and tens of thousands of collisions between deer and vehicles, and robberies would drop by 7 percent.” The author ends the article by saying how we should make the change now, to reduce the risks of standard time and the greater risk of state …show more content…
Some people see the bright side that spring is coming and they are having longer days, and “Oregon state passed a bill that would make standard time permanent, but only in California and Washington do the same.” Many people agree with daylight savings time and say it would give them more time to do things and “studies show a rise in car accidents and ER accidents after springing clocks forward, and a new study shows an effect of daylight savings time on heart health is likely minimum.” In Congress, the time changes have been considered over long decades with bills that have been pushed back to the mid- introduced and people are starting to want more daylight savings time while others want standard time as it allows us to have more sleep and sunlight in the morning. People don’t want to wake up in the dark and the whole reason they want more standard time, is to get that light in the morning, but there are also some benefits to daylight savings times, like fixing the sleep schedule and re-adjusting our routine. The controversy over daylight saving time continues, but each side has reasonable