Daylight Savings Research Paper

Daylight saving is when we spring forward an hour at 2:00 am on Sunday, March 12, and fall back an hour on November 5 (2:00 am). Daylight savings originally began in during WWI in order to reduce the amount of fuel consumed by artificial lighting. It was then removed until WWII. But WWII is long over so why do we still have it? Most people think that it helps with safety, less car accidents if there is daylight at the end of the day. However, this “benefit” only comes at the cost of the loss of daylight in the morning. The Monday after daylight savings the rate of car accidents went up by 8%. Daylight saving should be stopped, because its benefits are no longer outweighing the negatives.

Some people think that daylight saving was made to help the farmers so they could get up earlier, but this is not true. Farmers are opposed to daylight savings because they will get up regardlessly with the Sun, no matter the time. Furthermore, it messes up their schedules, because they have to adapt to other people new schedules because of the time shift. The one hour change may seem like a little, but it can mess up someone’s sleep patterns for up to five days afterward. …show more content…
This cost US companies millions to reset automated equipment, put us further out of sync with Asia and Africa time-wise, and inconvenienced most of the country, in an attempt to save energy. Some people say that they want daylight savings, so they can experience the evening light, but an equal number of people like the morning