Tonight the clock will be set to winter time. Every year is equally confusing: Should it be forward or backward?
Summer is immediately over for this year.
Tonight, Sunday night at 03:00, the clock will be set.
And yes, you have to set it up an hour backat the so-called normal time.
For most people, the cell phone does the work for us while we sleep. But it might be helpful to plan so you know if you will be interrupted within an hour tomorrow – or if you can sleep a little longer with a clear conscience.
If you plan to sleep until 10:00 tomorrow and the clock hasn’t set automatically, it will be 09:00 when you wake up. This means you have an extra hour of sleep tonight!
It will therefore be brighter when you get up in the morning, but earlier in the evening in the future.
If you go to a party tonight and hoped for an extra hour of fun and booze service, you will be disappointed.
– Unfortunately, alcohol legislation does not allow this. The same legislation steals an hour from us when the clock is set, says Kristoffer Fladmark, co-owner of Oslo’s Storgata 26 pub.
Tip a friend tonight, there could be problems. Vipps reports it on Saturday evening:
Pss! Tonight we switch to winter time. Starting from. From 01:45 to 03:15, the friend payment from the account is unfortunately not available and the payment from the card can be unstable during this period.
Nano-accurate
Now the watch has become even more accurate. The regulatory body has a new atomic clock.
500 national atomic clocks around the world form the basis of UTC, to which all time zones refer.
In Norway, we are in the UTC + 1 time zone in the winter and UTC + 2 in the summer.
The atomic clocks in the various countries are measured against each other every day and four of them are in the time laboratory of the Justervesenet in Norway. They have new technology there.
But why do we have to move and set the clock back and forth? We can’t just have summer time all year round, many people ask.
Perhaps it will also be so, says Industry Minister Jan Christian Vestre (AP), who is the supreme head of the Norwegian Adjustment Service and who ensures that Norway is also in step with the times.
The EU is considering abandoning summer and winter time. It will have consequences here at home too.
– Norway will wait for the EU decision before deciding whether to stop setting the clock. For business reasons, it would probably be an advantage to have the same solution as our closest neighbors, says Vestre.
Energy saving
The summer time regime was originally introduced to save energy, he informs The Department of Commerce and Industry in a press release.
Some countries introduced summer time during World War I to save coal for use during the war. The aim was to make the most of daylight during the period of the day when one is normally awake. An extra hour of light in the evening would, among other things, save energy for heating and lighting.
Norwegian DST is two hours ahead of UTC.
Many countries in the EU / EEA area follow the time zone Central European Time. When the proposal requires each Member State to choose whether they want to keep standard time as their normal time or choose summer time as the new normal time, this carries the risk of greater time differences in the EU.
British-born New Zealand entomologist George Hudson is said to have been the first to propose summer time. He was a researcher and wanted more sun in the evening to collect the bugs.
