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Daylight saving time
- Spring brings daylight saving time, namely the convention, widely accepted in the Western world, to set clocks one hour ahead in order to have more light in late afternoon and a little less in early morning.
- This change usually occurs in the last weekend of March.
- Daylight saving time was first enacted in 1966 and, behind this decision, as the name suggests, there is a necessity of saving energy.
- It was estimated that, thanks to daylight saving time, in 2016 only about 573 million kilowatt hours were saved.
- Such is the average consumption of about 210,000 households.
- Besides saving energy, daylight saving time helps to protect the environment, as at least 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide are prevented from going into the atmosphere.
- Winter time comes back in Autumn, when shorter light hours make the change useless.
- The main problem with daylight saving time is that we have one hour less to sleep.
- But, from that day on, we will enjoy light for one more hour.
- Of course this makes it possible to save money, as we don’t need to turn on the lights in our houses.
- However, there are some drawbacks.
- Some people find it very difficult to adapt to the change, and their circadian rhythm becomes disrupted.
- What do you think?
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