Daylight Saving Time

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Daylight Saving Time

• By Lisa Shusman

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Reasons for Daylight Saving Time

• To make better use of daylight
• to preserve energy for war production by taking
  advantage of the later hours of daylight in World
  War 1
• Conserve energy
• Safer travel
• Prevents crime
• It wasnt created for farmers, and it doesn't
  benefit farmers

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History

• March 19, 1918- act to preserve light and provide
  standard time for the United States
• Set to begin March 31, 1918 till the end of World
  War 1 to preserve energy for war production by
  taking advantage of the later hours of daylight
• Repealed in 1919
• Roosevelt issued year round daylight saving
  during World War 2
• War time lasted from 1942-1945
• Was not a law after 1945, but some places still
  used it
• created difficulty for scheduling
• The Uniform Time Act 1966 signed by President
  Lyndon Johnson
• begins last Sunday in April, and end of the last
  Sunday in October
• Energy crisis in the 1970s, Nixon signed into
  law the Daylight Saving Time Energy Act of 1973-
  extended daylight saving to conserve energy
• 1986 amended to start Daylight Saving Time on the
  first Sunday of April to the end on the last
  Sunday in October
• August 8, 2005 Bush signed a energy bill that
  increased Daylight Saving Time to the second
  Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November

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The Change

• President Reagan made first change from last
  Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April
• To conserve 300,000 barrels of oil in April alone
• Energy Policy Act To start it on the second
  Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in
  November
• Adding two full months, one in the spring and the
  other in the fall
• Complaints were made so the change is now the
  second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday
  in November
• Extends Daylight Savings day by one month

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Pros for change

• Energy use will be curtailed
• Halloween will get more daylight
• Longer synthetic sunshine
• Use more natural light then electricity
• Crime rate drops
• Estimated that it would save 100,000 barrels of
  oil a day
• Most of which would be saved through electricity
  oil because of the less amount of light needed

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Cons for change

• Can hurt computers and electronics, older
  technology are not prepared to update
• Other countries feel they need to change as well
  because of the economy that is integrated with
  the US
• Airlines dont want it because of scheduling
  international flights
• Farmers dont want it because of the impact on
  there live stock

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Spring forward, fall back

• 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in April we set the
  clocks forward
• spring forward
• 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October we set the
  clocks back
• fall back

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Work Cited

• http//geography.about.com/cs/daylightsavings/a/ds
  t.htm
• http//www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html
• http//www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html