Daylight savings is when we either “spring forward” or “fall back” an hour. In the spring, we set our clocks forward, so we lose an hour of sleep, but get more daylight. In the fall, we set our clocks back, so we gain an extra hour of sleep, but it gets darker earlier. It’s an adjustment but it’s always interesting to see how it affects our daily routines!
The purpose of daylight savings time is to create a way to save energy and to get more use out of our natural lighting. Some problems we have with daylight savings are upticks in heart problems, mood disorders, and sleeping problems. It doesn’t affect farmers like some people think. I interviewed Trabor Bauer, a local farmer, who gave me this information,‘’ Long story short, it doesn’t affect me because we just adjust to the daylight and dark hours. From my perspective, it doesn’t affect the environment. One way or the other positive or negatively because it doesn’t change how we go about business.’’ I also interviewed Ben Bauer,’’ I have been helping Trabor for a very long time. It’s one of my favorite times because of the time I spend on the farm. Daylight savings doesn’t affect the farms the only way it affects me is when I get home and it’s dark outside. Other than that it doesn’t really affect me at all.’’
Daylight savings time originated in the U.S. and is currently still being used in Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.
Over all daylight savings does not affect the community and we will continue to keep using daylight savings.