The U.S. Department of Transportation says that under the Uniform Time Act, as amended, states can exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time by state law.
Do we really need to move our clocks back or forward an hour twice a year? There are, however, a few downsides to springing forward.
The opponents: movie theaters, who find people don’t want to sit in the dark when it’s light out, school districts for the kids dealing with the morning darkness, airlines because of schedule changes, and companies seeing less productive employees the day after losing an hour of sleep. Thankfully, there are ways to avoid these problems. Not only will you wake up prepared and ready for the day, but you also won’t have that lag that you have experienced in time changes before.
Don’t forget to set clocks forward one hour at 2 a.m. Sun., March 12. Yates operates www.sco.tt/time, which lists studies showing the fallacies and pitfalls of the fall-and-spring time change. As for the agrarian rationale, farmers were never meant to be the main beneficiaries of the time change concept. You don’t care what the clock is.
Putting children to bed earlier during the week leading up to the time change can make a big difference.
Lawmakers also are looking to end DST in Washington due to inconvenience, health problems and accidents due to lost sleep they say the time switches cause. “It’s served its time and place to save energy, but now with the advent of efficiency and solar panels and things they didn’t have 100 years ago, let’s keep our clocks on one time”, said bill sponsor Representative Dan Pabon. “The risk decreases by about 10 percent”.
Founding Father Did Not Come Up with DSTAccording to the History Channel, Benjamin Franklin did not come up with the idea of daylight saving time; he only suggested a change in sleep schedules. This allows your circadian rhythm to reacclimate.
“Daylight Saving Time can be hard for everyone”, Mindell says.
But “falling back” means you get a free hour of sleep.
Continue following your before-bedtime ritual to relax your body for sleep. The light and stimulation from electronic devices can disrupt sleep.
Be sure you’re exercising on a daily basis to tire your body out.
Stick to regular waking, eating, sleeping and exercise times.
“Recent research indicates that DST does not substantially reduce energy consumption and may even increase it”.