Daylight savings time

Since people have learnt to appreciate time, they have been searching the ways to save it. They have invented different devices including Daylight Savings Time . Now it is time to decide whether it is of benefit to us or not.

People strive for waking up at dawn in order to use the daylight hours to the maximum. The idea of summer time originates from this and a lot of countries live using Daylight Savings Time. They consider that combination of vigil with natural day allows saving of electricity consumption. Daylight Savings Time can be defined as the period of time when hands of a clock are put 1 hour forward relatively the time adopted in the time zone. In the autumn they put the time 1 hour back in accordance with the zonetime. The link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time will be appropriate here to give the details.

Summer time was introduced in Germany in 1916 for the first time. Such countries as the USA, Canada, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, European countries borrowed this tradition. However subequatorial countries do not use Daylight Savings time.

Along with the term summer time they use such notion as winter time though it is not quiet correct. The question arises: why the time before change into summer time is called winter time? Most likely it is accepted in order to differentiate these two notions, to oppose one to the other.

Let’s leave the right to define concepts to scholars and examine whether Daylight Savings Time is really so helpful. In fact, in spite of a seeming profit a lot of people come out for cancellation of Daylight Savings Time. They assert that summer time exerts a negative, wrecking influence upon people’s health. It may cause:

• Bad mood;
• Lethargy of unclear origin;
• Infarct;
• And even a sudden death.

As the research shows about 80 % of people in Russia, for example, suffer from Daylight Savings Time. The application of summer time leads to forced awakening of people during 7 months in a year. Children are especially prone to harmful effect of summer time. 30-50% of their morning sleep falls on its healthiest phase - desynchronized sleep that impacts nervous system forming and brain development of a child. Each year the number of people who bear desynchronization with ease is reducing.

According to other materials Daylight Savings Time leads to increase of:

• people’s morbidity,
• car accidents,
• industrial injuries,
• complaints about health worsening because of a chronic disease;
• attempts of suicide.

 

The researches conducted in the USA reveal that after the time shift the number of fatal outcomes resulting from accidents increases by 6 per cent, traumas resulting in disablement – by 7 per cent.

All these facts prove that it is not worth saving on the health of people. A compromise should be found between the wish to save electricity and the wish to lead a healthy life. Besides, the economy of energy consumption is not so significant. We should make choice and not be mistaken this time.