Essay On Daylight Savings Time
For many Americans, we look at daylight savings time as nothing more then turning back or forward the clocks. Never really knowing why we have it and why it is still being used to this day. Per WebExhibits, daylight savings time was created by Benjamin Franklin in 1784("History & Info - Daylight Saving Time, Early Adoption, U.S. Law."). He brought it up since the days were getting shorter with daylight and that the mornings would be earlier. Franklin came up with the idea of adding 20 minutes to each Sunday in April and taking away 20 minutes each Sunday in September. This was first adopted in Britain and soon spread to many different countries during WWI. The main reasoning for it during WWI was to allow more light during the day, so then the labor hours would increase. There were some states that did not use daylight savings time during this period. After WWI ended Daylight Savings Time was abandoned, but came about with the United States during WWII and for the same reason. In 1966 the Uniform Time Act of 1966
…show more content…
It is that it decreases our productivity when DST starts. Whether it is we sleep in too much and become lazy or we wake up tired having a tough time staying awake. According to LiveScience, with most that work the morning of a daylight savings time often experience cyber-loafing. Which is basically procrastinating on the internet during times of work (Poppick, Laura). This relates back to loss of money during the second point because if one isn’t working then they usually are not making money. Per globalnews.ca, this happens due to the lack of sleep which causing the employees to have a lack of motivation. Another part of the lack of productivity is that our “body clock” is not on a regular schedule (Chai, Carmen). This means one is more likely to still be tired throughout the workday because they are working through the lack of
It is that it decreases our productivity when DST starts. Whether it is we sleep in too much and become lazy or we wake up tired having a tough time staying awake. According to LiveScience, with most that work the morning of a daylight savings time often experience cyber-loafing. Which is basically procrastinating on the internet during times of work (Poppick, Laura). This relates back to loss of money during the second point because if one isn’t working then they usually are not making money. Per globalnews.ca, this happens due to the lack of sleep which causing the employees to have a lack of motivation. Another part of the lack of productivity is that our “body clock” is not on a regular schedule (Chai, Carmen). This means one is more likely to still be tired throughout the workday because they are working through the lack of