Due to questionable energy savings and negative impacts on health, many countries around the world have eventually abandoned the transition to summer and winter time.
Clocks are set to winter time to save energy and because of the tradition of conforming to biological calendar time. In Ukraine, clocks are also being changed, despite discussions about such a need. At the same time, some countries around the world refused to change clocks.
Why the clocks are changed to winter time – read on TSN.ua.
Why do clocks change to winter time?
The then US Ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin, came up with the idea of changing clocks depending on the season back in 1784. He calculated how many hours Parisians spend sleeping in the morning, when the sun has already risen, and how many candles they burn in the evening before going to bed. Franklin also calculated the amount of electricity that factories and factories could save when work continued in daylight. So the idea of changing the clocks was justified the need for economic frugality.
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The first time clocks were moved forward an hour in summer and back an hour in winter was in 1908 in Great Britain.
At the beginning of the last century, the transition to summer and winter time was also proposed by the London contractor William Willett. He He argued this as an opportunity to save energy. The idea was first applied by the British government in 1916, and then supported by more than 100 countries around the world.
Therefore, clocks are changed for two reasons: to comply with biological calendar time and to save energy.
Why do they change clocks in Ukraine?
Ukraine, together with the republics of the USSR, also began to change clocks in 1981 to save energy and extend daylight hours.
In the early 1990s, Ukraine tried to abandon the seasonal change, but in 1992, the clock change was resumed again, taking into account the time calculation system in force in Europe.
In 1996, the Ukrainian government approved a decree regulating the procedure for changing clock hands. Ukrainians still use it today.
Changing clocks to winter and summer time does affect energy savings at home and in businesses, but not very significantly. At the same time, such tradition has a negative impact on health people due to forced restructuring of the body’s biological clock. This affects people’s sleep, well-being and, as a result, their performance.
Which countries don’t change clocks?
Due to questionable energy savings and negative impacts on health, many countries around the world have eventually abandoned the transition to summer and winter time. Thus, today only 29% of the world’s space moves its clock hands. For example, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Japan, Russia and Belarus do not change their clocks.
In 2019, the European Parliament supported the decision to cancel the clock change from 2021, but there is still no final decision. In fact, each EU country must independently decide what time to live by. While most European countries change their clocks in March and October every year.
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2023-10-01 16:24:59
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