Synthesis Essay On Daylight Saving Time

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Daylight saving time has been around for less than hundred years and although initially it was not popular, gradually it became accepted and is still in place today. Some may struggle in adjusting to and back with daylight saving time; some may easily adjust. Nonetheless, there are benefits and downsides, such as the opinions of many who assert the insignificance daylight savings time, to DST. To begin with, with the implementation of DST, safety and conservation increased as a result of more light for view. Most people tend to feel safer in broad daylight than in the dark for light has a physiological effect of providing assurance that more people will be active in broad daylight, so the possibility of someone making sure that one is okay …show more content…
The presence of daylight savings time is not as common internationally and has not been standardized for along time. It has only been standardized in the U.S. since only ten years ago (Source A) and is not observed in some US territories, such as “Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and etc” (Source B). Thus, may confusions persist to exist even in the domestic areas as to when DST starts and where exactly DST applies. For many immigrants, tracking the time to contact their relatives in homeland might be inconvenient as well since not many countries participate in DST. For example, on special occasions such as birthdays or celebrations in my homeland, my family members have to take into a account the additional hour or the standard time of the U.S. to make sure that they do not call at the inconvenient time. Thus, my relatives are often muddled by when they have to call. Also, the adjustments to DST is n important issue. Not only does it have “unintended health consequences” (Source E) but also, the disconnection between the body time before makes adjustment difficult. For instance, at the time Daylight Savings end, some forget or are unable to get up because of the disruption in body pattern. Ultimately, aside from its downsides, with a better awareness in the standardized time of DST, more people will be able to adjust to DST and reap the