Most people believe daylight savings time started to give farmers an extra hour to work.
This actually does have a positive economic impact for some industries, though none of them include agriculture.
In 1986,the start of daylight savings shiftedfrom the last Sunday in April to the first.
Plus,changing everyone’s sleep schedulestwice a year can be deadly.
In 2020, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine called for the time change to be abolished.
According to one study, our bodies don’t actually adjust to daylight savings time.
Currently, Arizona, Hawaii, and several U.S. territorieshave already done away with changing their clocks.
What they need to move forward, though, is an act from Congress.
Happiness and health have been a major concern as we enter another year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
