The following article is a brief summary of the history of Daylight Savings Time. I wrote this for a college English class and our assignment is to publish a summary of our paper.                      

                                     Pros and Cons of Daylight Saving Time

      Measuring time has been recorded as far back as 3100 BCE (Before the Common Era). Altering time was first introduced in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin. Ancient civilizations measured the passage of time with the movements of the sun, moon, planets and stars. There has been many types of time measure, such as; during the era of Ice Age, by mankind scratching lines into rock walls, or Egyptian sundials, the Babylonian time keepers, Greek water bowls, that are similar to the functions of an hour glass and the Mayan or Aztec calendar's, all the way up to the current use of the modern day mechanical clock. (Higgins et al.).

Daylight Saving Time is very controversial and has been debated continuously by many a person twice a year since 1784. Daylight Saving Time has created a variety of debatable pros and cons such as; the contrary side of daylight saving time, there is an increase of heart attacks due to the disruption of circadian rhythms, an increase of manic episodes, mental illness, blindness, and skin cancers, or the increase of energy use. On the proponent side of daylight saving time, it can boost one's health due to an increase of outdoor physical activities, a decrease in seasonal affective disorders due to the longer daylight absorption, an increase in economy due to retailers staying open later and consumers shopping after an average workday, or the decrease of energy use.

Either way Daylight Saving Time affects us all. Have you ever experienced a Daylight Saving Time fiasco or health issue? Has the time change ever left you confused, late to work, early to work or other events? From researching all the results, studies have found that, the pros and cons are split down the middle, 50/50 either way.

Handwerk,Brian "Permanent Daylight Saving Time?MightBoost Tourism Efficiency" National Geographic Daily News" 4, November 2011.Webhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com  

Higgins, K., Miner, D., Smith, C.N., Sullivan, DB. "A WalkThrough Time" National Institute of Standards and Technology 5, October 2010 web<https://www.nist.gov/pml/general/time/world.cfm>

Roenneberg, Till Dr. "Daylight Saving Time: Healthy or Harmful?" New England Journal of Medicine 3, November 2013 web http://www.new.nationalgeographic.com

This awrite is a summary of a paper written for a college English course.