Why dont we keep daylight savings time all year long? Even in the winter it would add an hour of daylite to the evenings when most people are up and about and save some electricity.
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Logic dictates that an all-year daylight savings plan would, in fact, cost more. If it would save money and provide other benefits we would already be doing it. The only reason it saves money now is because society agrees to turn it on and off twice a year.
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So what you are saying is, why don't we change our time zone, and move it back one hour? Daylight Savings Time is tied to the seasons. There would be no savings or benefit if we did this all year.
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"When year-round daylight time was tried in 1973, one reason it was repealed was because of an increased number of school bus accidents in the morning." "In fact, farmers generally oppose daylight saving time. In Indiana, where part of the state observes DST and part does not, farmers have opposed a move to DST. Farmers, who must wake with the sun no matter what time their clock says, are greatly inconvenienced by having to change their schedule in order to sell their crops to people who observe daylight saving time."
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