Year-Round Daylight Savings Time
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The Honorable Robert E. Andrews
United States House of Representatives
2439 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3001
Dear Representative Robert E. Andrews:
As we approach that fateful day, Oct. 29, when all clocks "fall behind," it's time to re-evaluate the reason for these changes.
Daylight Savings Time was instituted for the benefit of farmers, who needed more daylight for chores. During World War II, we used it year-round to conserve electricity.
Now, agribusiness has arranged matters so that daylight hours don't matter; cows are milked by machine. Plants grow at their normal rate regardless of our artificial time, and many farmers do some chores in the evening, when it's cooler.
With standard time, dawn comes while children are going to school, and it's already dark when they go home. It's the same for all workers, and is especially depressing in the Northwest or the Mountain States.
It is time to decide on one or the other time permanently. Yes, other countries, like Britain, change hours. But they still have small farms, where more daylight matters.
There is no more reason to keep changing hours. "We've always done it" doesn't cut it anymore. Besides, we need more daylight in winter, not summer, as chronobiologists will tell you.
United States House of Representatives
2439 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3001
Dear Representative Robert E. Andrews:
As we approach that fateful day, Oct. 29, when all clocks "fall behind," it's time to re-evaluate the reason for these changes.
Daylight Savings Time was instituted for the benefit of farmers, who needed more daylight for chores. During World War II, we used it year-round to conserve electricity.
Now, agribusiness has arranged matters so that daylight hours don't matter; cows are milked by machine. Plants grow at their normal rate regardless of our artificial time, and many farmers do some chores in the evening, when it's cooler.
With standard time, dawn comes while children are going to school, and it's already dark when they go home. It's the same for all workers, and is especially depressing in the Northwest or the Mountain States.
It is time to decide on one or the other time permanently. Yes, other countries, like Britain, change hours. But they still have small farms, where more daylight matters.
There is no more reason to keep changing hours. "We've always done it" doesn't cut it anymore. Besides, we need more daylight in winter, not summer, as chronobiologists will tell you.
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