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Posted on March 9, 2008 | Category: History, News
Daylight saving time has once again been implemented in the most of the US with the exception of Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, half of Indiana, and most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona). Also several other countries have or will be implementing daylight saving time soon; of course there are many countries south of the equator that have their daylight saving time in reverse of ours, and countries on or near the equator have little use for it since their days remain a fairly constant length all year long.
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If you are reading this right now you are probably wondering why you must go through this torturous ordeal of sleep deprivation each year, when the clocks spring forward, and perhaps will relent by the fall turn back for the extra hour of sleep, which will again fall a few days later this year. The clocks will fall back the first Sunday in November; it was the last Sunday in October before the new. As it turns out there is no good single answer to the question of why. Not surprisingly the change is closely tied to the price of gasoline. Yes gas; actually all energy in general, but mostly fossil fuels. So, now you are probably asking if it helps save oil why is price of gas projected to break $4 a gallon this summer. Well apparently daylight saving time does not work as well as it used to back in the days when there were only a few channels on TV and no internet, and less Americas worked behind a computer. Today many people will still stay inside consuming electricity despite the extra daylight, and of course with more activity during the summer daylight there will be more summer heat to contend with, so many people will actually end up using more air conditioning. So does daylight saving time have any benefits? Some studies claim that day light saving time reduces crime and traffic accidents, because people spend less time driving in the dark on the back end of the daylight during the evening. I guess time will tell. Apparently, day light saving time actually causes more traffic accidents on the day after we spring forward, which is probably because more people wake up late therefore rush, and you combine that with less light in the morning and a few sleep deprived people desperate for their morning coffee and you can imagine why there would be more accident the first day. Since daylight saving time of course does not change the amount of daylight, the name is very deceptive and perhaps called such for the physiological benefit. As you can probably now tell I am not entirely convinced that it helps to implement in March instead of April, but now that the tremendous cost has already been wasted patching numerous software applications (which were coded with the old daylight saving schedule) we might as well leave it as it is.
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