"Daylight savings has been existent for a long time, but in this day and age is it truly helpful? More and more people have started saying no." LOGAN BERGMARK 7TH GRADE
Daylight savings has been existent for a long time, but in this day and age is it truly helpful? More and more people have started saying no. Everyone either dislikes daylight savings, or they don’t have an opinion. This is probably due to the fact that it fades into uselessness in Oakland. OSA Lit Arts student Amara Deanes states, “I think daylight savings used to be necessary until people started farming less and less. It was first created so farmers would get more daylight, but now that farming is exported, we don't need it anymore.”
According to the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, “New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed modern DST. His shift-work job gave him spare time to collect insects and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895, he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,and considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch; he followed up with an 1898 paper.This proves daylight savings was originally proposed so someone could catch butterflies, but, over time it evolved to be a way to save fuel.
Despite its origin of saving fuel during the world wars, and for train scheduling, it has now become a bit obsolete. If anything, it is a waste, at least according to Jeffrey Kluger in their article, Daylight Saving Time Is the Worst. “A 2008 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nationwide, added daylight can actually increase energy consumption by about 1%, due partly to greater use of air conditioning when the sun is out later in the evening,” writes Kluger.
According to the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, “New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed modern DST. His shift-work job gave him spare time to collect insects and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895, he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,and considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch; he followed up with an 1898 paper.This proves daylight savings was originally proposed so someone could catch butterflies, but, over time it evolved to be a way to save fuel.
Despite its origin of saving fuel during the world wars, and for train scheduling, it has now become a bit obsolete. If anything, it is a waste, at least according to Jeffrey Kluger in their article, Daylight Saving Time Is the Worst. “A 2008 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nationwide, added daylight can actually increase energy consumption by about 1%, due partly to greater use of air conditioning when the sun is out later in the evening,” writes Kluger.
Sayori Espinoza, a middle school Literary Arts student says “I don't think it's necessary because why would I need a longer day for [a] longer class? Plus why would someone who is working EVERYDAY and is probably tired want a longer day for more work, more duties, more everything. there shouldn't be [any] longer [days] just do it as normal and get on with it dude, seriously it was never that deep to the point where we needed it.”
Arizona and Hawaii don’t even have daylight savings. In fact, "At least 45 states have considered or passed legislation to shift to permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time. The Sunshine Protection Act, which would move the US to permanent daylight saving time, has been introduced to Congress several times, beginning in 2018," states USAFacts in their article Why does the US have daylight saving time? | USAFacts.
“I think we should leave it up to the states,” suggests Literary Arts student Aphrodite Avidon, “because [for] some states way up north, like Alaska, it may be helpful because they have days of no sunlight and it may be helpful for them, but in other states it may be completely useless.” she also says “I don’t think it is necessary because you have heard that it is for farmers, it is a hoax, farmers hate it, and if not for farmers it seems pretty unnecessary,” but Lit Arts student Lucy Dennis thinks “[we should do] nothing, keep it the way it is” but, it is a difficult thing to decide, it may be useful to some and useless to others.
Arizona and Hawaii don’t even have daylight savings. In fact, "At least 45 states have considered or passed legislation to shift to permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time. The Sunshine Protection Act, which would move the US to permanent daylight saving time, has been introduced to Congress several times, beginning in 2018," states USAFacts in their article Why does the US have daylight saving time? | USAFacts.
“I think we should leave it up to the states,” suggests Literary Arts student Aphrodite Avidon, “because [for] some states way up north, like Alaska, it may be helpful because they have days of no sunlight and it may be helpful for them, but in other states it may be completely useless.” she also says “I don’t think it is necessary because you have heard that it is for farmers, it is a hoax, farmers hate it, and if not for farmers it seems pretty unnecessary,” but Lit Arts student Lucy Dennis thinks “[we should do] nothing, keep it the way it is” but, it is a difficult thing to decide, it may be useful to some and useless to others.
