There is no sign that the EU will abolish its clock change soon. Any European working to an American deadline has had to reschedule their labour to start an hour earlier than usual-and will soon have to forget that process and go back to the old routine. Most of Europe will move its clocks forward on March 27th. Perhaps most inconvenient for businesses is the fact that countries may change their clocks at different times.
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It could also be that car accidents increase, as drivers used to commuting in the daylight, for example, suddenly have to do so in the dark (or vice versa). This may increase the chances of heart attacks and strokes. It is, says one, akin to injecting a micro dose of jet lag. Although it has not been proven conclusively, many scientists think that changing the clocks messes with humans’ circadian rhythms. Over 80% wanted time-alternating scrapped, and for good reason. When the EU ran a poll among its citizens, it gathered nearly 5m responses. In 2019 the European Parliament voted to end this long-established practice from 2021 (though the small matter of a global pandemic has pushed it back indefinitely). As the ne’er-do-well’s adage might go: “the longer the daylight, the less I do wrong.”įor all that, clock-changing is unpopular. It might increase consumer spending, as shoppers are encouraged to stay out later into the evening. Later, other benefits suggested themselves. This, in turn, would help the war effort. Britain, France and Germany calculated that by adding an extra hour’s daylight in the evening, a saving could be made on coal. But the practice really took hold during the first world war. In the 18th century Benjamin Franklin mooted the idea of moving the clocks forward in the summer.
Most American clocks (Arizona and Hawaii opt out of changing theirs) sprang forward on March 13th. Some 70 countries, mostly in the Americas and Europe, apply Daylight Savings Time during the summer months. But more often countries fiddle with the time of day for practical reasons. (Pity the poor people of Xinjiang province in China’s far west, where sometimes the sun does not rise until 10am.) For almost three years, until 2018, North Korea existed in its very own time zone, half an hour behind its southern neighbour, in keeping with its hermit tendencies. Despite its vastness, all of China runs on Beijing time-a decision taken by Mao Zedong in 1949 to instil unity. SOMETIMES THE decision to change a country’s time zone can be political.
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