Question

What are the pros and cons of daylight saving time? Are you for or against it?

Answer 1

Daylight saving time has been used for more than 100 years.

PRO'S:

1. LONGER EVENINGS : Changing the clocks does not create extra daylight, but it causes the sun to rise and set at a later time by the clock. so, when we spring forward an hour in spring, we add 1 hour of natual daylight to our afternoon schedule.

2. LESS ARTIFICIAL LIGHT : One of the aims of daylight saving time is to make sure that people's active hours coincide with daylight hours so that less artificial light is needed. This makes less sense close to the equator where the amount of daylight does not vary much in a year, or near the poles wheree the difference between winter and summer daylight hours is very large.

CON'S:

1. DOESN'T SAVE ENERGY : A century ago, when DST was introduced, more daylight was a good thing because it meant less use of artificial light, helping to save energy. Modern society, with its computers, TV screens and air conditioning units uses more energy, no matter if the sun is up or not. Today, the amount of energy saved from daylight saving time is negligible.

2. COSTS MONEY : It is hard to determine the economic cost of the collective tiredness caused by daylight saving time, but studies have found that there is a productivity after the spring transition. There is an extra cost in building daylight saving time support into computer systems and keeping them maintained, as well as manually changing clocks.

I AM in FOR of daylight saving time because more daylight hours make the roads safer and also there is decline in crimes from last few years.