Daylight Saving Time Espenak Case Study

Espenak (2016) observes that the Daylight Savings Time idea, which may be credited to Benjamin Franklin, had the objective of maximizing on daylight hours by forward shifting of the clock by an hour in the spring and backward shifting it again during the fall. The idea was implemented during the World War I in Canada and the United States and many other European countries. In the United States, the legislative house enacted and passed a bill where Daylight Savings Time was to commence on the last Sunday of the fourth month of a calendar year and end on the last Sunday of October. President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill into law in 1966. In 2005, a new energy bill was signed by President Bush that extended the Daytime savings by four more weeks (Monalisa, 2013). Some states, for instance, Hawaii do not observe the Daylight Savings time and any state is at

Espenak (2016) states “US Federal law was amended in 1986 to begin Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in April”. This was aimed at mitigating interference as Sunday is not a working day for most public servants. Both pedestrian and automobile accident occurrence rate reduction is one of the major benefits that results between 9.00 p.m. and 10.00 p.m (Coate & Markowitz, 2004). Despite the efforts however, some businesses are affected when the clock hour is adjusted from 2.00 a.m. in the United States to 3.00 a.m. in springs (IDEA, 2016) or from 1.00 a.m. to 2.00 a.m. in the United Kingdom. For instance, enterprises that runs throughout the night loses an hour owing to the change implying that employees whose income is pegged on hours pocket less than usual. While this may be partially true, the negative effect is compensated by the additional hour of working that is created at the end of the