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What You Should Know About the Daylight Saving Time Petition




The daylight saving time has been a long and also controversial thing in history. The idea was actually adopted by Germany and Britain in 1916. The goal of the daylight saving time was to bring down the consumption of coal for domestic people and also to allow the factories to have additional time to work in order to help their efforts of the war. The discipline and functioning of the daylight saving time is usually that the clock usually go forward during the summer one hour and it goes back one hour again during the winter. In that way, people enjoy extra evening daylight during the warmer months and they also have some extra daylight in the morning during the winter. The effect of this switch of the daylight saving time varies depending on the geographical location of a certain nation. The closer your country is to the North Pole the more you will notice the effects. Example at country like Iceland, the sun usually sets for only three hours during the night and they only experienced five hours of proper daylight when they are in the winter. However, thanks to the daylight saving time especially during winter that people do not actually have to go to school or work in the darkness. When people are forced to go to work or even go to school during the dark times of the winter they are increased traffic accidents and they are also a lot of crimes experienced during this period. People are not also able to adapt to the changes and that has also raised an alarm on their increased health related complications which are usually due to the disturbed sleep in cycle of people. Get to know more about the petition to end daylight savings.


People still argue that the daylight saving time does not save on energy as it was perceived. When it was introduced, the more daylight experienced was a thing because that meant that people would use less of the artificial light and that will save you a lot of energy. However, the modern society which has tv screens, computers, and also the air conditioning unit people still use energy no matter whether the sun is around or not. Hence, in the recent days the energy saved by daylight saving time is usually negligible.


People still argue that during the daylight saving time more people are sick. A lot of studies link that the lack of sleep when the daylight saving time starts leads to suicide, workplace injuries, car accidents, and even miscarriages. Also, the darkness in the early evening at the end of the day light saving time is usually linked to depression for most people. Read more here...


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