Should The US Have Daylight Savings Time?

[1Ashlyn]

Daylight savings time has been around for over a hundred years. During World War I, Germany was wanting to find a way to save energy. In 1916 they started using daylight savings time.  After the US found out about daylight savings time, the US wanted to start using it as well. The US eventually started using daylight savings in 1918. We are one of the 70 countries that still use daylight savings time today.

 

Daylight savings time does not only save energy, it also makes it so there are longer daylight hours. With this, people can do a lot more things in the day. It will be easier for people to get to work and come home because it is light out. It can also be safer for people because light makes it easier to see what is going on in their surroundings. Daylight savings is also good for the economy. When it is light outside, more people are going out and doing things like spending money for groceries or shopping. Lastly, it makes people have more active lifestyles. With this, you see more people outside doing different activities and playing sports. 

 

Daylight savings time is not always beneficial. One con of daylight savings time is it is bad for people's health. There are some people that die every year because they are stressed by daylight savings time. When people get stressed they get headaches and some people even have heart attacks. Another thing daylight savings time does is drop productivity. Daylight savings time can make people tired, thus they are not being as productive at work or in their daily activities at home.

 

I don’t think we should keep daylight savings time. It causes a lot of deaths and it makes a lot of people tired so they don’t want to do things. It is also really confusing for people since the times are off. I can see why people think we should keep it though.

 

https://www.wisn.com/article/daylight-saving-time-2024-explainer/60138968#:~:text=There's%20been%20plenty%20of%20debate,Americans%20call%20daylight%20saving%20time.

 

https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2022/11/07/history-daylight-saving-time#:~:text=It%20was%20first%20introduced%20in,was%20repealed%20a%20year%20later.

 

https://www.procon.org/headlines/top-3-pros-and-cons-of-daylight-saving-time/#:~:text=Daylight%20Saving%20Time's%20(DST)%20longer%20daylight%20hours%20promote%20safety.,-Longer%20daylight%20hours&text=Also%2C%20daylight%20in%20the%20evening,and%20criminal%20activity%20is%20lowered.

 

Should the US keep daylight savings time?

 

Is daylight saving time beneficial?

 

[1Ashlyn]

I agree with what you said. I also think health is more important then the econmy. People are dying they are stressed about daylight savings time. I also think work and school are more important. If people are tired for work and school then they are not going to do anything.

[5chloe]

I agree with you because it dose have some effects on your health because when you have a certain sleep scedual and you go back an hour you can mess up the scedual.

[6Sergio]

I think that they should not keep daylight savings. It can be bad for your health, even if it comes to changing your sleep pattern. They manage to increase a person's chance of heart attack issues by 10%. You lose sleep, which is not good since you would be too tired to do anything. The act of changing clocks costs $1.7 billion in average hourly wages. Yes, it was useful back then, but we managed to change and improve over time, so there is almost no use in still having it. 

[1Ashlyn]

I agree with what you said. Daylight savings time is not good for your health since people die each year from it. I also agree when you said about how it can make everyone tired. It can mess up a lot of peoples sleep scedules so people are really tired by the next morning.

[5 Madden]

1.) I don't think so because you lose sleep and hours of your day, and I feel like it is pointless. You have to change clocks, and it feels like all it is, is to mess with people, not really, but I think we would be fine without it.

[1Ashlyn]

I agree with what you said. Since they don't really use daylight savings now. It is also really annoying that everytime the time change happens we have to change are clocks. I also agree that it messes up with a lot of peoples schedules.

[6Dalton]

Should the US keep daylight savings time? Yes, I think the U.S. should keep daylight savings time. It is very beneficial for the United States such as saving energy. It also makes the days longer and with that people are able to accomplish more things and kids are able to be involved in sports longer and get to be outside longer.

 

[1Ashlyn]

I disagree with what you said. Even though it does save energy I feel like more people used it more in the past then they do now. Even though people can acomplish more things when it is light outside, people can still be really tired and not want to do things when the change happens.

[1 Abbie]

I think that daylight savings time is very useful. It itsnt pernament so the people that dont like it having it always. It also gives us more sleep at night and for us students or teacher or whoever wakes up early it will be benfifical for them since they dont get alot of sleep.

[1Kenli]

I disagree with your comment. I think that there is not really a use for daylight saving time. It makes it so that people always have to change. It also makes it so that if its 5 pm and in the winter, people are getting ready for bed. Also in the summer when it is 9 pm, people are still wide awake because the sun is up.