What's With Daylight Saving Time?

By Ryan

We all know what daylight saving time is, right? In the Summer we turn our clocks back one hour. And the fall we turn our clocks ahead one hour.


Are you for it, or against it? I am for it, Believe it or not, some people even fight about it. Some want it and some don't.

A man named William Willett, who was an English builder and a golfer, made up a plan of what became daylight savings time. A lot of people in the United States liked William Willett's plan. All the farmers liked it because it gave them one more hour of daylight to do their work. Kids liked it because they got one more hour of playtime with their best friends and also they played longer with man's best friend, (their dogs)! Adults liked it because they had more time after work to do stuff.

Newest change made it start earlier in the spring and end later in the Fall than before. It used to start on the first Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday in October. the federal government has made a new law that DST now starts on the second Sunday of March and lasts a week longer and it ends on the first Sunday of November.

Most kids like it in the Fall especially, because we get to sleep one more hour. Lots of people have a hard time adjusting to the changes in time. Some I've talked to say it upsets their body schedule and they can't get enough sleep in the Spring especially. Usually it takes about two weeks to adjust to time changes.

So it doesn't matter if you like DST or not cause Fred Upton said “we’ll get used to it, it is here to stay.” The bottom line is that were going to save energy. A study by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has said that by 2020 we will have saved $4.4 billion and released 10.8 million metric tons less of carbon into the atmosphere.