Fall back....spring ahead. Really, what is the point?
At this point in the year, students are tired, teachers are tired and trust me, I am sure your parents are tired. So, lets move the clocks ahead and lose an hour of sleep. I love driving to school in the dark. Seems like maybe Arizona and Hawaii might be the smartest states in the nation when it comes to daylight saving time as they did not change their clocks last night.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/0/daylight-saving-time-united-states-time-do-clocks-change-does/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-daylightsaving-idUSKBN16I0S6
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-health.html
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/03/daylight_saving_time_2017_surp.html
Write a scholarly paragraph with at least three things you learned about daylight saving time. Make sure that your paragraph has at least 5 sentences. In conclusion, give your opinion about what should be done with daylight saving time. Should we follow in the footsteps of Hawaii and Arizona? If you find another article that has interesting information, go ahead and use it. Just be sure to include the web address at the end of your response.
I read the article Your Health and Daylight Saving Time. Research showed that losing an hour of sleep decreases productivity, concentration, and general well-being; it also increases road accidents, and risk of heart problems. There are lots more traffic accidents on the Monday after DST, which are caused by tired drivers. However; it’s not just losing an hour of sleep that can be bad for your health. During the fall, when we set our clocks back 1 hour, we’re losing an hour of daylight, which can cause seasonal depressions. A study found an 11% increase in depression cases during after the seasonal change, which gradually went away after the 10 weeks following the time change. I think that we should follow what Hawaii and Arizona are doing, and not participate in Daylight Savings Time. This research shows that losing and gaining an hour, isn’t beneficial to anyone’s health, and has no real purpose. If we get rid of Daylight Savings, it would have a very positive impact, and prevent future accidents and health problems.
ReplyDeleteIn the article that you read it mostly lists negative effects to the changing the time but i bet there has to be some positive effects too. Also i agree with what you said about not participating in the Daylight Savings Time so people will not get confused and people will have nothing to complain about.
DeleteSounds like an interesting article! I like your opinion!
DeleteI agree with you, I never knew how much of an impact daylight saving time had on people, its kind of crazy the statistic behind DST like 11% increase of depression.
DeleteI agree with you that there really is no purpose to DST, so why are we even still participating? It is so interesting that a single hour difference in the time increases accidents and heart problems, and also causes depression!
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ReplyDeleteFor most people daylight savings is just something that occurs twice a year, not really understanding the effects of it. Besides making people grouchy and tired the day after, daylight savings has a much bigger effect, which poses the question, Should we follow standard time like Hawaii and Arizona? I read the article, Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say. The article explains how there is a significant increase in strokes, heart attacks and car crashes the Sunday of daylight savings. Along with that, you don’t want to been seen in court the Monday after daylight savings because on average your sentence will be 5 percent longer. Since my dad is a judge, I will have to give him a hard time if he arrests someone on Monday. I understand being tired but it is crazy to me all the noticeable effects of it. This article also debunks the common belief that energy is saved with daylight savings, because of the amount of people up early. Overall, abolishing daylight savings would be a huge commitment and we should have more research done before anything should be done.
I agree that get rid of daylight savings would be a huge commitment but I think it needs to be done. There is no reason for it in our day and age.
DeleteI agree, what could happen if we get rid of it? What negative effects and positive effects would occur? Are they better or worse than the original effects?
DeleteThat's really interesting that if you go to court on Monday after DST your sentence will be 5% longer. I agree we should do more research before getting rid of daylight savings, but I still believe that it has no use for us.
DeleteDaylight saving time started with Benjamin Franklin. He suggested that if people got up earlier then they would save candle wax. Then a man named William Willet came up with the idea for British Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time) in 1907. He decided that the clocks “Should be advanced by 80 minutes in four incremental steps during april and reversed during september.” In 1916 Germany and Britain began changing their clocks. Supporters say that DST reduces coal consumption but people against DST say that they’re not sure that any energy is actually being saved. Also in the spring, risks for heart attacks and strokes increase, cause more car accidents, reduce productivity, can trigger seasonal depression. I think it’s about time that we follow Hawaii and Arizona and stop DST.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned, was that not all places have day light savings time. Places such as Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Island don't participate in daylight savings like most people in America. In some places, they may also set there clocks back less than an hour. Another thing that I discovered was that Ben Franklin was the first to come up with the idea of daylight saving. He proposed that by using as much daylight as possible, people could save money on candle wax. Even though this was true, I learned that daylight savings did not become commun until WW1. Many of the leaders in Europe believed that this system could take pressure off the economy, giving them more money towards the war effort. The Article I read also said that daylight saving has increased the chance of heart attacks. I think that we should have a system where we don't wake up until it is light out side. Getting up when it still feels as if it is night is very annoying. It makes me feel tired through out the day, and usually effects the quality of my work in school. Us waking up anytime before seven o'clock is already pushing it. If people start waking up even early, it could lead to unforeseen health problems.
ReplyDeleteI agree with us waking up to early and with daylight savings time we lose sleep because we have to wake up for school and when we go to sleep it feels so much earlier so it takes awhile for us to go to sleep which was me last night
DeleteWow! I didn't know that many countries didn't do daylight savings time, it kind of makes me jealous! And, I didn't know that Ben Franklin started daylight savings time either. That article sounded like it contained a lot of cool information.
DeleteThere are many things that I have learned about the background of Daylight Saving Time (DST) that I didn’t know. Before going to the The Telegraph article I knew little of DST besides “fall behind, spring ahead”. The article stated that DST was created so people would have more time to work in the light of the day, instead of using candles or any technology, which I knew that it enabled light to be out longer, but I never thought of the reason why they would do this. I also thought that DST extended to times before the 20th century, but I was wrong as it was mainly adopted by the majority of countries in the 20th century. I also learned that “springing ahead” can have many risks, like people being more likely to have a heart attack and also that people, like children will be out in darker hours, becoming more risky as they can not be as easily seen by cars or numerous other things. Although at times I find DST inconvenient I would not change it as it is a pattern that I am use. Also it is only an hour ahead which isn’t that severe so I and many others should easily be able to sleep on their normal schedules again.
ReplyDeleteI read Hate Daylight Saving Time? You May Have a Point, Researchers Say, it talked about the common issues that come from turning the clocks one hour ahead. I learned that because of daylight savings it causes heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, and reduces word productivity, all because of a one hour change! I also learned that daylight savings was made in WW2 as a way to save energy, and then the abolishment of this would require a law passed by the U.S. Congress. In my opinion, i actually think that all though i do feel tired in the beginning, i adjust to the time change, and like that the sun is out for a longer period of the day, thus to me the day feels much longer. Waking up tomorrow morning for school will be a challenge, especially on tuesday because of no late start, but once I adjust, the school day goes by so much faster to me. Also daylight savings does save our environment energy because there is a less amount of lights that are used and when used, are a shorter period of time. This helps save energy which is very beneficial and crucial to our environment.
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I feel like saving a hour of energy really is not making a large enough dent to make a difference so we just need to get rid of DST.
DeleteI agree with you. Even if we're losing an hour of sleep, daylight saving time is good because of energy that is saved by using less lights.
DeleteI’ve never really understood the point of daylight savings time except for farmers, but there's lights now and advanced equipment so I don’t think it’s needed as much. I read the article Your health and daylight saving times. Because you lose an hour of sleep, your body’s sleep schedule can get messed up and cause you to get less sleep. The risk of having heart attacks increases of the first three days of DST and traffic accidents increase on the monday following. Many drivers are tired. DST does however save energy used from artificial lights and there is more natural daylight. It was also claimed that the tourist industry is benefitted by the DST because they can stay out later and enjoy vacations or sightseeing. I don’t think the northern parts of the world should get rid of DST because places closest to the equator get more daylight and up north we generally don’t get as much so it’s important for us to have that extra daylight to do everything we want to do during the day and save energy.
ReplyDeleteI read this article as well. I do agree, we should not get rid of daylight saving time because we need all of the daytime we can get!
DeleteI disagree because up north we may be without light at night for a month but when it comes time in the summer everything will work out and we will have a good amount of light.
DeleteThis week, the article I read was called “Your Health and Daylight Saving Time”. Some things I learned while reading this was setting your clocks back can lead to more heart attacks, depression, and it disrupts your body clock. It stated that “the risk of having a heart attack increases in the first three days after switching to DST in the spring”. I did not think losing an hour in one day would have such a great affect on people's lives, and the fact that it can lead to something called Seasonal Affective Disorder is just crazy! This loss of one hour of sleep will make you tired throughout the next few days, will make it harder to fall asleep and more difficult to wake up. After having this time change all throughout my life, I have gotten used to it, and it allows it to get darker later at night, so no, I do not think we should follow in Hawaii and Arizona’s footsteps by getting rid of it.
ReplyDeleteI understand what you learned and agree it is crazy but your sending mixed messages. your writing looks like your going for getting rid of it but then suddenly your saying no we should keep it. i understand you have your reasons and it is weird how one hour can change so much, but i disagree with you, i think we should get rid of it so that we can keep our bodies clock straight and stop messing it up with the time changes.
DeleteI read "Hate daylight saving time?" and i kind of disagree with some of the things that they said. For example it states that setting the clocks forward an hour will prompt an increase in heart attacks and strokes, cause more car accidents and reduce worker productivity but i disagree with some of these things. Let's start with the car accidents, i kind of see where they are coming from with this one but i think it is kind of far fetched. First of i think it is people's responsibility to go to sleep and wake up on time, like if you know the clocks are going forward an hour make sure you go to sleep an hour earlier so you get sufficient sleep. Then when they get enough sleep there will be less strokes, heart attacks and car accidents. I also learned that some countries don't change their time and that quite a lot people dislike the change in times. Personally i think that setting the clocks forward is beneficial for me because then i get more time to play outside because the sun sets later.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the article from Reuters, daylight savings originated during WWII, as people believed that because of a later sunset people would use less light/energy within their houses. Studies show that this is not the case, but instead daylight savings has more cons than pros. It comes as no surprise that people don’t like losing an hour of sleep, and it causes problems. More people have heart attacks and accidents that day after the clocks change, when a person’s sleep schedule gets screwed up it could have detrimental effects. So what’s the point, why do we still have daylight savings? The answer remains a mystery, it doesn’t serve a purpose and makes people more cranky, personally I think we should say goodbye to daylight savings. Sleep is too limited as it is. We should definitely learn from Hawaii and Arizona, clearly they know what’s good for them.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “Hate daylight saving? You might have a point, researchers say.” One of the facts I learned was that the time change occurs at 2 am. I don’t understand why it was made at some random time rather than at 12:01 when the day begins. Another fact I learned is that daylight savings is more likely to cause heart attacks, strokes or car accidents. That I don’t understand, but the only reason I can think of is losing sleep. The last fact learned was that contrary to popular belief daylight savings does not save you any money in terms of energy. Personally I think we need to get rid of daylight savings. A majority of the world has thrown away the idea of daylight savings. The only countries that still have this would be America, Canada and Western Europe. Daylight savings were originally made to help the farmers with the changing seasons. Now we have technology so we don’t need it anymore. I think as a whole, America needs to get rid of daylight savings and stop losing sleep over it.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I find no reason in having daylight saving time just for an extra hour of sleep when there are so many negative outcomes to the situation as well.
DeleteI never really knew what daylight saving time really was, I just knew that I had to change my alarm clock! I read the article “Daylight Saving Time in the United States: What time do the clocks change and when does summer officially begin in 2017?” In this article I learned that Benjamin Franklin invented DST in 1907 to make the daytime longer! I love that the days get longer! I also learned that this wasn’t always a law in place, I really thought it was just a natural thing that happened and I feel really dumb now… Lastly I learned that George Bush changed the dates for some reason?? Sometimes I feel like the president just does stuff just because he can. My opinion on the whole daylight savings thing is pretty neutral. I love when the days are longer personally, but I also like the extra hour of sleep.
ReplyDeleteI am also neutral when it comes to Daylight Saving Time. I just don't see the point in changing it, and the extra daylight is nice so I don't see a need to change anything.
DeleteI read the article "Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say" and I learned that many countries don't participate in daylight savings because of the many disadvantages. For example, there's an increased chance for heart attacks and strokes the day during spring forward. Also, more car accidents occur and worker productivity is reduced. Many people are for daylight savings because they believe it cuts the nation's energy bill but it does not. I think that we should still have daylight savings because of more light and sunshine during the year.
ReplyDeleteDaylight saving time is when we move the clocks forward an hour during the summer months. Most of North America and Europe follows this custom. I read the article, Hate Daylight Saving Time? Surprisingly, studies show that when clocks spring forward and 2 a.m. on Sunday, it triggers more heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, and reduces work productivity! Even the smallest changes in a human’s sleep could have detrimental effects. The reason why daylight saving time was first used was to make sure people would spend fewer hours using lights inside their homes. Nowadays, I don’t think that matters, because many people have their house lights on, even when it is light out. As I would have guessed, studies do show that this concept has failed and there has been no show of energy savings when we shift the clocks. Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that do not go by the “daylight savings time law”. I personally don't’ think that daylight saving time is a very big deal, but if it does cause a slowdown in work productivity, and creates big problem that risk people's lives, maybe we should follow what Arizona and Hawaii are doing.
ReplyDeleteI never knew the point of daylight saving time but after reading the article “ Daylight Saving Time in the United States”, I began to have an idea of the history behind DST. One thing I learned was DST was not observed in the U.S until 1981 which is not that long ago. Not only that but I learned that some states like Arizona and Hawaii don't do daylight saving time, I always thought that everyone did it. Another thing I learned was that William Willett was the first one too introduced DST but Benjamin Franklin had the idea of making better use of light. I don't think there's much of a point for daylight saving time especially when they comes health risks including feeling extremely tired the next day, but I do think we should follow in the footsteps of Arizona and Hawaii because it doesn't seem like it caused them any problems of not having it so why shouldn't we do the same.
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DeleteI totally agree with you. Yesterday, my students were so tired by the end of the day.
I agree that it doesn't seem like Hawaii and Arizona are having any problems, and if it is causing sleep issues for some people then I think we should stop changing the clocks.
DeleteAfter reading the articles, I learned that the end of daylight savings time signals the onset of winter. I also learned that William Willet introduced the idea of daylight savings time. The article “Hate Daylight Saving Time?” says that by turning the clocks back can change your sleep pattern and can have outsized effects. I don’t think that turning the clocks back is a good idea because this can change your sleep pattern and can cause you to lose sleep the night, or potentially, nights, before or after the time change. The article says that states are allowed to opt out of the time change, as long as they stay with standard time from November to March. If we’re allowed to not change the clocks then I think that we should follow Hawaii and Arizona.
DeleteThe article I chose, “Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say” explained why the time changes even happen. During World War II, it was adopted as an energy- saving measure, and people thought that a later sunset would mean fewer hours would be spent using electrical lights inside of homes during the evening. This plan failed, and now there is an increase of heart attacks and strokes because of that lost hour. In addition to those drawbacks, the rate of car accidents grows while the worker productivity rate lowers because of a decrease in sleep. This practice has also failed to cut the nation’s energy bill like experts thought it would. So why do we still do it? In order to take it away, it would require a law to be passed by the U.S. congress; however, each individual state can opt out. Personally, I have never understood why we do this, seeing as we are one of the only countries in the world who practices daylight savings. It has way more drawbacks than positives, so I think we should stop this odd tradition. All I know is that my entire family was almost late to go to church this morning because we forgot to change our clocks!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, there's just no reason to keep it. There are major negative impacts which outweigh the minor positives. It doesn't even achieve the main goal for which it was created; it has no effect on energy use.
DeleteI read "Hate Daylight Saving Time? You May Have a Point, Researchers Say". Let's be real here, does anyone actually like the idea of Daylight Savings and waking up an hour earlier? Plus, it doesn't help that it creates a higher risk of car accidents and lowers productivity. There really seems to be no point in carrying it on anymore since it no longer lowers the amount of electricity and its bill. Not to mention the 25% increase in heart attacks that occur the next day. Yes, it would help for us to keep this "tradition" in order to make sure us northerners get sunlight during the day, but is it really necessary if people are at risk because of it? Don't get me wrong I love it in the winter when I get to sleep in because of DST, but do we really have to do either one at all?
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DeleteI also thought that the 25% increase in heart attacks was rather crazy. Is it worth the small amount of energy we save?
After reading Hate daylight Saving Time? You May Have A Point, Researchers Say by Joseph Ax, I learned positive and negative effects of turning our clocks forward an hour. First of, the article explained most of North America and Europe have participated in this custom since World War II, but most of the world doesn’t. It is said, the smallest change in one’s sleeping schedule could be disastrous. Also, causing an increase in heart attacks and strokes, more car accidents and reduces worker productivity. In addition, it seems federal judges dealt out sentences five percent longer the day after daylight saving time on average than those weeks before or after. In my opinion, if we were to get rid of daylight savings then everyone should, although I do enjoy when we get to turn our clocks back an hour. Ultimately, I need sleep, so whether keep or discontinue daylight savings I’m still going to sleep for 10 hour; not to say we couldn’t learn a thing or two from Hawaii or Arizona. Now thinking about it, I might move there, not because it of daylight savings rather the warmer climate.
ReplyDeleteBoth Arizona and Hawaii sound very attractive after all this snow. Warmer weather, no time change, no snow in March!
DeleteThe article I chose to read was titled "Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say" by Joseph Ax. The article covers both the negative and positive effects of daylight savings time along with other additional facts. Europe and most of North America are pretty much the only countries to follow this custom, I had no clue it was an uncommon practice. Though it was initially enacted to save energy in WWII, it is now coming to light that it might not be as effective as we once thought. While states can opt out of daylight saving, congress would have to pass a law to abolish it entirely. I don't like losing sleep, however, I do not mind daylight saving time enough to cast a vote on whether we should get rid of it or not.
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading Daylight Saving Time in the United States: What Time do the Clocks Change and When Does Summer Officially Begin in 2017? I learned that the idea was really invented by Benjamin Franklin when he wrote an essay suggesting that people get up earlier to save candle wax, but William Willett reintroduced it as British Summer Time. Although it was first used as an idea to get people out of bed earlier in the morning and save energy, some critics say that DST is dangerous because it isn't as safe for kids walking to school in the mornings, the hour of sleep lost was linked to an increase in heart attacks. However, when we gained our hour back, the heart attack rate decreased by 21%. DST helped us conserve energy and save lights, so I think we should keep it.
After reading the article Daylight Saving Time in the United States: What time do the clocks change and when does summer officially begin in 2017? I think that we should end day light saving. First, the whole point of day having day light saving was to save resources and get people out of bed early; but these reasons are outdated. Most people agree that a majority of people are not getting as much sleep as they need. So why once a year do we take a hour of sleep away from everyone. But its not the one hour of sleep that we loose that affects us but the change in sleeping habits that happens year. Human bodies have their own internal clocks and so when you change the time someone wakes up by an hour your body may not be ready to wake up and once we readjust it just changes again. Overall I think that we should end day light savings and just keep the clocks in the same manner all year long.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned about Daylight Saving Time is that Benjamin Franklin was the first person to bring about the idea but that William Willet was the one who got everything started. Willet introduced the idea of British Summer Time, or Daylight Saving Time, in 1907. In his system, the clocks would move forward by 80 minutes in 4 increments in April and back in September. Another thing that I learned was that we started using DST so that people would use more natural light and that there would be more economic use of artificial energy sources, like burning coal, for other uses, like for manufacturing. The last thing that I learned was that changing the clocks back is actually bad for people's health. The risk of heart attack increases when we loose an hour of time and decreases by 21 percent when we gain an hour. I think that it would be better to no longer have DST and go back to the way things used to be before we went to use DST, and that although DST was created to lower energy consumption that does not mean that does.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say“. In many countries and 48 states, Daylight Saving Time is put in place in the spring when the clock moves forward one hour and is reversed in the fall when the clock falls back. This system was adopted in the US during WWII in order to save energy because it would push the sunset back an hour so the sun would be out later in the day which in turn would make people use less energy. Several studies on DST have shown no major change in energy consumption. Also, there is an increase in the risk of health issues when sleep schedules are changed as shown by the 25% increase in heart attacks the Monday after DST begins. Due to the lack of necessity of this system and the negative impacts on health I think that Daylight Saving time should be abolished. (Although I might feel differently in November when I get an extra hour of sleep).
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that daylight savings should be abolished as it has no advantages and tends to just cause problems.
DeleteBefore reading the article Daylight Saving Time in the United States: What time do the clocks change and when does summer officially begin in 2017? I did not know much about Daylight Saving Time. After reading the article I learned that Benjamin Franklin was the one who originally came up with the idea for daylight saving. I also learned that Germany first implemented this idea during WWI to take the pressure off the economy. In addition I learned George W. Bush changed the timetable for daylight saving. I don’t really have an opinion on daylight saving. The extra hour of daylight is nice, however I don’t like having to lose an hour of sleep. Overall Daylight Saving Time is just something I’ve learned to live with so I don’t really see a point in getting rid of it.
ReplyDeleteI just finished the article Your Health And Daylight Saving Time. I was just informed that daylight savings can cause more heart attacks than normal. This is because being tired can decrease concentration, general well-being, and productivity. They said they have found that setting the clocks forward for spring increases the risk of heart attacks, road accidents, and sleep problems. I realized that it causes sleeping problems but i thought that it was just having trouble falling asleep because you're use to falling asleep at certain times that has now been moved to an hour later; which is causing us to fall asleep later and want to wake up later than we need to. I also learned that it is a depressional trigger. This is occurring because just by setting the clocks an hour earlier means we lose an hour of daylight which triggers seasonal depression. I never thought there was a way to prepare yourself but there is! You can set your alarm to wake up a little earlier than usual on the before the time switch. This makes it easier to get out of bed on Monday morning. Eat a healthy breakfast to get more nutrients and ready to prepare your body. Food also tells your body it is the start of the day. Light also helps to adjust your body clock. I believe they have the right way of doing everything we are already use to it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that by eating a healthy breakfast and setting your alarm to wake up a little earlier than usual before the time switch, will help you ease into the time changing.
DeleteI read the article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ personally I do not like daylight savings because during this time I am tired and dreary. Even worse in my opinion though is fall back because I like to go fishing in the fall and after daylight savings I can’t even go because all the parks close at sunset which is at 5 in the fall. Overall I think the only benefit to daylight savings is the energy usage goes down which is good for the environment. I learned Spring forward Fall Back after reading this article I could never remember when we moved the time forward and when back now I will always remember. IN conclusion I think we should get rid of daylight savings.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said, I hate when the days get shorter and you have less daylight.
DeleteI learned that daylight saving time is very conflicted and was used all over the world until recently when people are proving the point that it does not save time or money. Although people still use it it hasn't been proven to contribute to anything except health issues and productivity. I never quite knew when we had to change the times on our clock but now i know why we do and when we do now. I’m personally used to it because i've lived in the US for my entire life but i think that they need to choose a time and stick with it for the entire year. If you set the time back you may get an extra hour in bed but that usually doesn't change things when it comes to lighting for people who wake up early. Also for putting the time forward, it still has no use because the evenings get lighter and lighter on their own, changing what time we think it is doesn't change that.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading about Daylight Savings, I learned many things; such as the fact that Benjamin Franklin was the first person to think of the idea. Although, it was William Willet who really got the ball rolling with this proposal. His suggestion for the time change was to move our clocks forward by 80 minutes in 4 phases during April, and back in September. One of the last things I found out was that many thought by moving our clocks we would be able to use more natural light, therefore saving money and allowing our use of artificial light to be more economic. Overall, I think we no longer have any need for the time change, and that the positives don’t surpass the negatives. As a whole, we already do not sleep enough, and the spring forward is definitely not helping anything. Times are changing, and we no longer require a time change.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “Daylight Saving Time in the United States: What time do the clocks change and when does summer officially begin in 2017?” and this reinforced my belief that daylight savings should be discontinued there is simply no need for it. I believe that when it was started in 1916 by Germany it was a good idea as it conserved their limited resources and made the most effective use of daylight. However I do not see a use for it today. Electricity is far more common place now than it was back then and a lack of daylight will not stop us from going about our daily activities as it would have back then. What i learned from this article was mostly all Daylight savings does is increase your risk of heart attack, make you feel tired and drowsy and thus less productive and can even endanger children as they are forced to walk to school in the dark. The benefits this system once held are now meaningless and the disadvantages are far too great to justify continuing this tradition. tradition.
ReplyDeleteI read the article about the serious problems with daylight savings time and the negative side effects. For instance, heart attack and stroke rates increased when the clocks changed. When daylight savings time was first created it was supposed to decrease the nations electrical bill, but no such thing occurred. Now it would seem like daylight savings would be a bad idea according to the statistics, but without daylight savings spring sports would have a tough time having practice go after 5:00. Not only for practice but for other things, the light is very important.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the negatives of daylight savings outweigh the positives.
DeleteThere is so much more to daylight saving time that I thought. I read the article, “Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say”. First of all, I completely think that daylight savings time is stupid, and it was only proved through the facts that were given to us in the article. For example, I didn’t know that it prompts heart attacks and strokes, and even increases the rate of car accidents. Also, which to I am not surprised, there is a reduction in worker productivity. The reason I am not surprised is because I am always tired, and when you add getting up early for school five days a week, I meet extreme fatigue sometimes. And not to mention going to bed late due to the activities that I have outside of school too. I just see no point in daylight savings time, and we should just do what Hawaii and Arizona are doing.
ReplyDeleteI read the article, Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say, one thing that I learned was that Arizona and Hawaii do not change their clocks when we do. Second, I learned that if a judge hands out a sentence after daylight savings time it would be 5% more than a sentence given before daylight savings. Finally the third thing that I learned was that when the clocks change at 2 a.m on Sunday it will likely prompt an increase in strokes and heart attacks. I don’t think that daylight savings is as bad as everybody makes it out to be. It doesn’t matter to me if we have it or not so I am on the fence.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the article "Daylight Saving Time in the United States: What time do the clocks change and when does summer officially begin in 2017?", and I still think that daylight saving time is a great idea. Even though we lose an hour of sleep, we still get to have more light out during the day. I didn't know that Benjamin Franklin actually came up with the idea of daylight savings. Even though when I wake up it is still dark out, I like to have that extra time after school to do whatever I want outside without being in the dark, like lacrosse practice. That extra light that we get after school is totally critical for sports. Before daylight savings time, my lacrosse practice was ended 30-45 minutes. But since daylight savings time, we have gotten those critical 30-45 minutes back to practice.
ReplyDeleteWhile I read all the articles, the one that really piqued my interest was “Your Health and Daylight Saving Time”. I’ve always been one to grump when the clocks jump forward in the Spring, mostly because I was losing out on an hour of sleep. However, after reading this article, I’ve got more legit reasons to grump about DST. Research has shown that the incidence of heart attacks, car accidents and sleep issues increase when the clocks shift forward an hour. DST also wreaks havoc on our body clocks, often leaving us more tired, cranky and challenged to settle into the new time. Is the time change really necessary with such adverse health risks? I personally don’t think so. DST has long been debated. Those in favor of DST promote energy –savings (even though the savings are so minimal, basically nonexistent), and better use of daylight hours (increase in tourism and outdoor activities). With no real evidence supporting those pros, the proven adverse health issues associated with DST are reason enough to put DST to bed for good.
ReplyDeleteI learned that due to daylight savings, the risks of heart attacks and accidents due to sleep deprivation are increased. Also, due to receiving less sleep, you end up having a decrease in productivity, concentration, and general well-being. Losing sleep can also become a depression trigger. To help fix problems when daylight savings time comes around is to change things little by little, like slowly setting your alarm clock slightly earlier. Changing your bedtime can help adjust to the daylight savings time. I think that if daylight savings time becomes too much of a hassle, then we may as well not do it. But currently, just prepare yourself little by little for a adjusting to a different time.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading the article “Your Health and Daylight Saving Time”, I learned that daylight savings can affect your health greatly. The changing of the clocks changes your body clock. When “springing” forward it usually is little harder for you to get out of bed. The time change doesn't just affect waking up but also going to bed at a reasonable hour because your body isn’t tired at the time you really should be going to bed. The article also states that seasonal depression can become a bigger problem because of the loss of an hour of sleep. The changing of the times aren’t all negative, there are some positives for example, car crashes and DST, are showing less accidents after switching back to standard time, probably due to another hour sleep. I believe that daylight savings is a good thing because there are solutions to making the change easier on your body such as setting your alarm earlier the week prior to the change. Also adjusting the time you go to bed a little bit earlier the week before the time change can also help with the switch.
ReplyDeleteThe negatives of continuing daylight savings outweigh the positives. There are study's proving that there is an increase of heart problems and drepression when we set our clocks back. There is a decrease in productivity, and it is also not safe. Kids that have to walk to school in the morning are being forced to do so in the dark. Also, you would spend less money on electricity bills. In conclusion, there is not a huge reason why daylight savings is still occurring, and I think we should follow in Arizona and Hawaii's footsteps.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “Your Health and Daylight Saving Time” I learned that you have more of a risk of a heart attack in the first three days of DST. Also more traffic accidents happen on the Monday following DST due drivers being really tired. DST can also cause depression in some people after DST over 10 weeks. I really think we should get rid of of DST there is to many negatives to it. I see really no point to keep continuing DST.
ReplyDeleteI decided to read the article from telegraph.com that talked about the history of daylight savings time. It was interesting to hear that Arizona,Hawaii,Puerto Rico,The Virgin Islands American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Island don't partake in daylight savings. It was said that Benjamin Franklin was the first to ponder the idea of daylight savings. The actually idea for daylight savings time came about in 1907 in Britain. A man named William Willet introduced the idea of DST. I also found it interesting that President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act moving daylight saving from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November.
ReplyDeleteI read the article "Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say." The article listed all the downsides of turning our clocks for daylight saving time. We are more at risk of getting heart attacks and strokes after changing our clock because even slight changes to our sleep schedule can have drastic consequences. And it doesn't even reduce energy use like it was expected to. Instead it uses the same amount of energy and has negative effects making it a pretty dumb idea overall. It would be in our best interest to follow in Hawaii, Alaska and other countries' footsteps.
ReplyDeleteI learned that DST was originally created by Benjamin Franklin when he suggested people get up earlier to make better use of available light and save on candle wax and by William Willett because “he wanted to prevent people from wasting valuable hours of light during summer mornings”. Now we are used to changing our clocks forward and backward at spring and fall. Some people do not like this idea because it can be dangerous in the morning when it's dark out or more energy can be used on warm evenings. However, others say that it would reduce traffic accidents, save energy, boost tourism and encourage more people to exercise outdoors. Places like Hawaii and Arizona do not follow the daylight saving time schedule and maybe that is because it is somewhat unnecessary to change our sleeping schedules a few times a year. Overall, I think the way we are changing our clocks right now is fine but I also think we'd probably be alright without DST. There are both pros and cons and i am not 100% what my stance is on this just yet.
ReplyDeleteI read the article "Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say." I learned that only north America and Europe follow this custom, the rest of the world does not. daylight saving time was developed during WW2 as an energy saving measure. Changing daylight saving time would require a law passed by congress. I think that we should just do away with daylight saving time as it has no real positive effect and it is overall detrimental to society.
ReplyDeleteThe article I read was “Hate daylight saving? You might have a point, researchers say.” I learnt that the time change always at 2 am. I think it's kind of weird to change it then instead of when the day begins at midnight. I also learnt that daylight savings is more likely to cause heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents. That to me is very strange, but I can assume it is from lack of sleep. In my opinion, we should get rid of daylight savings, the majority of the world already has. The only countries that still have this would be America, Canada and ones in Western Europe. Daylight savings were originally to help the farmers with the changing seasons. Now, it's just an inconveneince. It just makes us lose sleep.
ReplyDeleteThe article I had read talked about the negative side effects of daylight saving time. The article was called ‘Your Health and Daylight Saving Time’. The effects talked about in the article were about an increased rate of heart attacks and depression. For being tired has the decreased rate of sleep, productivity, and concentration. When researching, a Swedish study in 2008 found that the risk of having a heart attack increases in the first three of days in losing an hour. If someone has heart problems already, there’s an unhealthy increase to getting one. There’s many negative effects talked about in the article and little positive shown. I personally don’t like the idea of losing an hour but what can be done anyway?
ReplyDeleteDaylight saving through the years has been setting clocks back different amounts of time (30 minutes, 2 hours) till now when here in the USA we set forward/set back our clocks an hour. Hawaii and Alaska are two states that do not participate in daylight saving. Personally I think daylight saving really doesn't do anything for us now. When it first was created they totally needed it because it benefited them. I mean I love gaining an hour of sleep but losing an hour is not great.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article “Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say“ I have gained much more knowledge on daylight savings. I learned that in many 48 states as well as many countries, daylight saving time is put in place in the spring when the clock moves forward one hour and is put back along with the clock during the fall. This system was adopted in the US during World War I in order to save energy so that it would push the sunset back an hour in order for the sun to be out later in the day which by default would allow people to use less energy. However, multiple studies on daylight saving time have shown no major change in the energy consumption being commited. Though, there is a noticeable increase in the risk of health issues... As sleep schedules are changed proven by the increase in heart attacks (by 25%) the Monday after DST begins. Due to the lack of necessity of daylight saving time, alongside the negative impacts on health... I think that this concept should be removed.
ReplyDeleteI think Daylight savings is no longer necessary and we should follow Arizona and Hawaii's footsteps. Getting rid of daylight savings would be a huge commitment but I think the benfits overshadow that and that the fact other states have done it shows its possible. Why should we keep something thats only causing health problems and accidents? The statistics showing the increase of accidents, longer sentences for prisoners, and even heart attacks on the monday after DST is more than enough reasons to get rid of it.
ReplyDeleteDaylight savings time I think is a real pain. I don't see a reason for it, the rest of the world does not do it so why do we. In the article I read the day after daylight savings there is a 25% jump in heart attacks and also research shows judges often give punishment 5% longer after daylight savings than they would have the week before. I think we should follow in Arizona and Hawaii's footsteps. I would say most people would be very happy with doing so.
ReplyDeleteI learned that daylight savings was to cut the energy bills because theoretically, people wouldn't use their lights as much in the evening because the sun would be out for longer periods of time. Also I didn't know that Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that don't participate in daylight savings. I am a supporter of daylight savings. Although I love sleep and I wouldn't want to give that up, I like having more daylight in the afternoons because of sports and other activities. It doesn't take me long to recover from the hour of sleep lost so I have learned to deal with it.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I understand, daylights savings time isn't necessarily a good thing. Research has shown that it causes more car accidents and energy saving is a thing that no longer exists. Judges sentence prisoners for even longer than normal because of this change. It also makes people's sleeping schedules wacky. I honestly think it's stupid to put the clocks back an hour. What does that acomplish?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't think we should be continuing daylight savings. I hate when we have to wake up an hour earlier every year. Also, daylight savings causes heart problems and depression. Overall I think the negatives outweigh the positives of daylight savings. I think that it would be in our best interest to follow in the footsteps of Arizona and Hawaii and get rid of daylight savings.
ReplyDeleteI read the article titled "Your Health and Daylight Saving Time." This article talks about how setting your clock forward an hour causes us to lose one hour of sleep which then forward can lead to heart problems, depression and other health issues. I don't like the idea of changing our clocks forward an hour especially after reading this article and leaning about even more that can happen. Although I guess it is nice to have an extra hour of sunlight in the spring and summer. I just think that it is crazy how that one hour of sleep loss can trigger depression and health issues. I truly think we should follow the ways of Hawaii and Arizona and get rid of the time changes.
ReplyDeleteDaylight savings is not useful and that we don't benefit from it as we should. In the article I read the day after daylight savings there is a 25% jump in heart attacks and also research shows judges often give punishment 5% longer after daylight savings than they would have the week before. I also learned that daylight savings was to cut the energy bills because people wouldn't use their lights as much in the evening because the sun would be out for longer. The positive effects are lesser than negative, in which we should not continue with daylight savings.
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