Daylight Savings Time Analysis

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The article ‘When and Why Do the Clocks Change?’ covers various topics about Daylight Savings Time. It starts with talking about the origin of Daylight Savings Time, originally passed into law during the First World War due to the theory it would conserve more fuel and power, which was proven false years later. Then, in 1922 the Daylight Savings Time law was reimplemented by Roosevelt for ‘wartime’ conditions, however, this marked the day the law would remain permanently in use. The article also covers the pros and cons of Daylight Savings Time, with arguments on how Daylight Savings Time interferes with a person's internal clock, which can lead to more accidents on the road, mental issues, and more. However, people have stated pros about Daylight Savings Time too, those being primarily with economists stating how spending …show more content…
The spending metric was also interesting to me as I didn’t think that spending would increase by 3.2% just because people were given an extra hour in the day. The topic of how lawmakers are attempting to void Daylight Savings Time from the law is odd to me as I wouldn’t have expected it to take so many years for lawmakers to fight it, with Hawaii and Arizona not observing it brings the hope of many states to join in with them in the future. The writing of this article is alright, not a marvel, however the author gets their point across, and it’s understandable. However, there were areas within the article that had me wondering what their point was, one of those being the inclusion of Dr. Seixas’s full title in the article “Azizi A. Seixas, the associate director of the Center for Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.” This is far too wordy, and frankly unneeded in the article, it would have been better to simply say he was an expert in the field or