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__Daylight Saving Time__

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Daylight Saving Time is very important to everything. If you have no clue about it or why it is around, then take a look and find out.

__HISTORY__ Although it was first instituted i n 1915 in the country of Germany, Daylight Saving Time had been around for over a century before then. Benjamin Franklin was the first person to introduce the idea of Day Light Savings time in the 1770's. Day Light Saving Time was first enacted in Germany, eight years after William Willett revisited the idea in 1915. Britain followed and enforced British "Summer Time" in 1916. The United States of America, Canada and Europe followed during the First World War.

__THE IDEA__ Basically the whole purpose of Day Light Saving Time is to better the uses of daylight and use it more efficiently. People change their clocks in the spring, you set your clocks one hour ahead. Also people set their clocks in the fall, you have to set your clocks one-hour back. To remember this easily, just say "Spring Forward, Fall Backward". When you do this, one-hour in the morning goes to being in the evening (in the spring, and opposite for the Fall). Different countries have different set dates. If you lived near the equator then day and night is almost the same length, 12 hours. If you live closer to the North or South Pole, you will have a longer period of daylight in the summer. This means that if you live in the tropics or close to the equator, it’s not that necessary to set your clocks back.

__ RATIONAL __ The rational (to a 1975 study) is energy. About 25% of electricity is used. Energy use and energy demand is related to when people go to bed at night and when the sun rises in the morning. A significant amount of that percentage was at night when families were home. By moving the clocks ahead, electricity consumption has been reduced. Also, people will have more time to be outdoors. Retail stores found an increase in sales when Day Light Saving Time is in effect (People are shopping more frequently). Also, food will have more daylight to grow in. In the winter, workers, get more time in daylight in the morning to get to work. But at night it gets dark sooner. One of the bigger reasons why Day Light Saving Time is important is Trick-or-Treating. Children’s deaths are four times higher on Halloween, than any other day of the year. A law to extend Day Light Saving Time took effect in 2007. This provided Trick-or-treaters more light to go around in. This meant more children were allowed out to trick or treat. This also provided candy companies with a larger profit, as more people were buying candy for the children.

__ DOWNFALLS __ A study by United States of America showed that there have been more pedestrian deaths in the rush hour times, in November than October, as people adjust to the earlier darkness. They had also suggested that the risk of deaths for pedestrians is lower in the spring when the clocks are set back, and when the daylight comes earlier.

__EXCEPTIONS__ Some parts of Australia have stared to use the concept of Day Light Saving Time. But it is done in a different way than Canada. This is because the seasons are opposite from Canada. When Daylight Saving Time starts in Canada, it finishes in Australia.

Without Daylight Saving Time, everday would be short andnot much daylight would be around when peolpe wanted it. Famers crops would take a lot longer to grow and life we be very dark.

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