Daylight Savings Research Paper

Dear U.S. Government, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. That's the sound of your alarm clock every morning, but something is different about today. You lost an hour of sleep and you may not have felt it on Sunday because you can sleep in, but Monday morning is a whole other story. You wake up and feel like you slept for 10 minutes and now you have a full day ahead of you. How do I know this? I have felt the exhaustion that results from the time change. I don't think anyone should have to feel like that, and I believe daylight saving time should be abolished. The first reason daylight saving time should be ended is that daylight saving leads to you losing an hour of sleep and that one hour is extremely beneficial to your body. I can support this …show more content…
They state this “Loss of sleep can contribute to metabolic turmoil, weight gain, mood instability, irritability, and increased risks for accidents while driving or working.” (Dallas Sleep). Just because of daylight savings time, people who are negatively influenced by it have an increased risk of all of these conditions, and some of them life-threatening. A second reason to support my claim that daylight savings should be ended is that we are increasingly less productive the day after daylight savings. There is an article called “Daylight Savings Time - Top 3 Pros and Cons” on ProCon.org in which an anonymous author states “The Monday after the springtime change is called “Sleepy Monday,” because it is one of the most sleep-deprived days of the year. The week after the spring daylight saving time change sees an increase in “cyber-loafing” (employees wasting time on the internet) because they’re tired.” (ProCon.org) This shows that because of daylight saving time, there is sleep deprivation, making people much less productive the following day. Similar to the first piece of supporting evidence is something Till Roenneberg, a German chronobiologist who studies the body's relationship with light and dark, found in his …show more content…
Some may argue that daylight savings is good for the economy because later daylight hours mean people can go shopping after work. That means more people driving, so more money is being paid for gas and at the store. On the other hand, daylight saving time is bad for the economy because the time it takes to change clocks reduces working hours for civilians. My first piece of evidence to support my claim that people lose money from changing clocks is from William F. Shugart II, an economist at Utah State University. He wrote an article that exhibits the fact that the time it takes to change clocks loses Americans 1.7 billion dollars based on average hourly wages. Brian Handel - "The Art of Art" Another piece of supporting evidence is from an author named Alexander Abad-Santos who said, “The Air Transport Association estimated that daylight saving time cost the airline industry 147 million dollars in 2007 thanks to confused time schedules with countries who do not participate in the time change.” (Alexander

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