Daylight Savings Time is obsolete and unnecessary and the United States should move away from the practice.
The government introduced the act in 1918 as a way of stimulating commerce during World War I, and in the 1970s it was used as a push for energy savings. However, studies have shown that these benefits are negligible.
1. A UC Berkeley study in 2007 concluded that Australia's efforts to lengthen Daylight Savings Time by 2 months during the Sydney Olympics produced no recognizable energy savings.
2. A study by the Dept. of Transportation in the 1970s concluded that energy savings as a result of DST were minimal.
Millions of people in US territories and the state of Arizona do not practice DST, the rest of the country should do the same.