Why Daylight Saving Time??

I think it depends on where you live. Back on the farm the old folks used to tell us kids that daylight saving time was supposed to give the farm children more time to finish their chores before they had to be in school. The official version was that it was supposed to save energy, although that claim is disputed by some. Well, I think it is a bit unhealthy messing with our daily rhythms myself. As for the light in the morning, I think people are more likely to get in accidents or mugged in the dark after work than before.

When I was a child, our city also adapted the daylight saving time. However, it just made people feel very confused. And people often asked you which time you talked about when you had an appointment. It seems that we were forced to let the clock go faster one hour but everything was the same. As here we live in the south and I think this method will work better in the north places. So finally we don't adapt the daylight saving time anymore and I am so glad to it.

I can't see that it really saves any energy. If we don't use it at night, we use it in the morning and if we don't use it in the morning, we use it at night. Far more effective would be teaching people how to save (quit wasting) electricity at home and at work.

That is really interesting. I always have a hard time getting use to the time change. I will adjust after a few days though.

I have never been a fan of Daylight Saving Time. And when they extended it here in the U. S. a few years ago by starting it two weeks earlier in the Spring and keeping it a week longer in the Fall, I was really unhappy. For me what it did was make it a lot harder to get up in morning. No one even seemed to consider that studies have shown that school kids do much worse in school when they have to get up and go to school in the dark. The original idea was more for a mainly agricultural society which we no longer have. It certainly doesn't save energy for me since I have to set the thermostat so it starts heating the house earlier when it is colder so that I can make myself get up in the dark and cold. Then I have to have lights on to fix and eat breakfast for a much bigger part of the year than I would if there was no Daylight Savings Time. The time in the evening that it saves does not equal what it wastes. Then there is a health issue that no one ever as mentioned as far as I know. That is that it puts people outside doing activities earlier as far as the Sun is concerned and thus increasing their Sun exposure to more damaging and more cancer causing intensities and UV.

net wrote in mexico. I think obviously depends on where you live. Yet it is energy.

I live in England and in London its capital city is Greenwich where meantime begins. Last Sunday the clocks changed time. It means it is light when the children come home from school. If the time had stayed the same the dark late afternoons would have been a problem. I experience time difference when I travel to different countries like earlier this year I traveled to South America. It seems very similar to have a blanket and add more material to the end of it day light saving.

Funny you would ask, we just turned ours back today here in Mexico. Our governement claims we save energy by doing this 2 times a year. i sure dont see it. To me, its just a way to mess us all up.