Daylight Savings Time
Dangers of Daylight Savings Time Time is a valuable necessity that is not meant to be wasted for we do not have the power to extend or shorten it. As such, the issue of time management has appeared to be a problem for many people in the United States and other parts of the world. In the twentieth century, the United States adopted a new schedule for managing time also known as daylight savings. This new system would put clocks back an hour in the fall and forward an hour in the spring. At the beginning, the United States believed that this new system would help economize energy usage and better organize the amount of light the country received according to the time of year. Unfortunately, the United States later found out that their expectation did not quite assimilate into society the way they expected for. The introduction of daylight savings has become an inconvenience and even as a hazard to the lives of many. When the system was first adopted, the United States claimed that daylight savings was a way to save energy, reducing the amount of energy consumed by the public as they had less time to use energy during daylight or evening time (Source C). Although the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) stated that “the total electricity savings associated with daylight savings time amounted to about 1 percent in spring and fall” (Source C). The records from the National Bureau of Economic Research states differently as it said that no real energy-saving has been recorded from daylight savings in a study as of 2008. The study found that “daylight savings time resulted in an overall increase in residential electricity demands” (Source F). With people staying home due to having less daylight electricity is in more demand for household use. In societies today, electricity use explodes in demand due to the lack of daylight available outside. With daylight savings in use, the majority of Americans today stays home and consumes more electricity than