What is the reason for daylight savings time?

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asked Oct 31, 2020 in Polls/Surveys by Dometstres (690 points)
What is the reason for daylight savings time?

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answered Oct 31, 2020 by Avarado (27,970 points)
The reason for Daylight Savings Time is to make better use of the daylight we have.

In the winter months the Daylight Time is shorter so we want to try to gain an hour of sleep or hour of daylight in the Fall and Winter.

We change our clocks in the summer months to move an hour of daylight to the evening.

In November we gain an hour of sleep.

When it comes to Daylight Savings Time we change the clocks to an hour backwards which means that it will be an hour difference.

So if your clock normally says 10:00 AM then it would say 9:00 AM

With Daylight Savings Time an easy way to remember how we change the clocks is to remember it as in the spring we spring forward and in the fall we fall back an hour.

So in the spring we change our clocks ahead one hour and in the Fall or November we change our clocks so it's an hour behind.

We don't really gain any more time switching the clocks but it just seems like it.

I just wish we would stop with this Daylight Saving's Time because there's really no point too it.

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