Daylight savings is when time is adjusted to achieve longer evening daylight in summer by setting the clocks an hour ahead of the standard time to make better use of daylight for society. Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight savings time in the 18th century when he noticed he was wasting mornings in Paris by staying in bed. The U.S. implemented daylight savings time (DST) in 1918 to save fuel during World War I. It was then reinstated in WWII and stayed ever since. For the past 59 years, daylight savings time has been debated on whether its use is justified.
Many people think DST is pointless since it takes away from our original productivity and interrupts our natural sleep schedule. “Daylight savings time is a scam. The government is making us less productive and they’re trying to take things away from us that we enjoy. That way they can make the point that they control you. For example, TikTok, the government said it makes us more unproductive, which really isn’t true since it’s how we decide to use our time. Why are they changing the times midway through the year? It doesn’t make sense. We’re ruining our natural sleep schedules and bodily routines by one hour for no good reason. It’s obviously a scam,” Nehemiah Yonas said.
The other side of this argument is based more on the logic of adjusting the time itself than trying to break down the other opponent’s image. Mrs. Meyers focuses on the pros and the overall results of daylight savings. “I think we should keep daylight savings. I think it makes better use of the daylight hours. Having that longer afternoon rather than the sun coming up and us doing things at four in the morning is better. If we were locked down to a time schedule, we’re not getting up and using our daylight hours. So not having daylight savings is not mimicking what we used to have. And if you were farming, you got up at whatever time the sun rose anyway. I think it makes better use of how society is operating now,” Mrs. Meyers said.