Just what is the Value of Daylight Savings Time
Date Added: March 09, 2008 05:45:54 AM
Researchers and officials have begun to question the value of daylight savings time. After all it costs most people an hour of sleep.
The idea was first proposed in a satire by Benjamin Franklin who supposed that if people went to bed earlier and got up earlier they would use fewer candles.
City engineers for energy services have said daylight savings time which causes the clock to move forward and shifts to start earlier merely seems to cause the energy usage to occur at different times.
One study concluded that the results were “very inconclusive” and “in the end all they could say was that we were shifting 
it around.”
it around.”The University of California at Santa Barbara found during a study daylight savings time actually increased energy use. The study was conducted based on households in Indiana. There was a earlier study which came to similar conclusions in Australia.
Since April of 19866 the U.S. has always made the spring forward on the first Sunday of April. That is with the energy crisis years of 1974 and 1975 being the sole exceptions. This year and going forward the country will make the change on Saturday night. Standard time will return this year on November 2.
There are opponents to the change which make arguments that children will be going to school in the dark.
Teachers also have raised the argument that performance on tests immediately following the time change can be adversely affected.
Sleep study centers have determined that most people actually recover from the time change in just a couple days.
It does not seem to affect most people anymore than an airplane ride across the country would.
