Daylight saving time (DST). In the USA and Canada, it's called daylight time, and in the UK and European Union, it's called summertime.
Daylight saving time is also called daylight time in the USA and Canada. This unique thing is being practiced by many eastern and western countries like the United Kingdom, European Union and so many other countries.
What is daylight time-saving activity?
This act is being done in the summer session when days are quite long. It’s
the practice of advancing clocks during summer when the days are longer and
warmer. In such activity, the clock is set one hour forward in the spring season and set
back one hour in the autumn season. in this way, in the spring season, a day has 23 hours
and in the spring season a day consists of 25 hours, it’s the way to manage the
standard time in different countries.
Who propagates the idea of saving daylight in the world?
George Hudson gave the unique idea of saving daylight in 1895. first time
in the world German empire and Austria Hungary managed the first nationwide
implementation which had been started on April 30, 1916. since 1916 so many
countries of the world have practiced this activity to handle their problems
for example in the energy crisis of 1970, this implementation was quite
convenient.
Daylight saving act relation with history.
As we have daylight saving time some ancient civilizations had to
increase their working time in order to get the benefits of daylight. By using
this method, they make their day longer and shorter by one hour. The names of
that time-saving activities were water clock, civil time, and solar time. so, it’s
not really a new thing to be acted upon. It has a solid connection with history. The only name is new to some extent.
Drawbacks and benefits of the daylight-saving act.
Idea propagators, philosophers, and policymakers suggest that this act is
quite a fruit full for mental and physical health. As it promotes business by
increasing its time for one hour, reduce the traffic accidents, provide the
people chance of going outside and spend time with nature, reduce criminal activities,
and most important thing which we have in this activity of time-saving is that
its reduce the extra usage of energy and save energy.
Some critics have the view that
the act of saving daylight time is so disturbing and therefore its causes heart
attacks and so many mental and psychological diseases. It makes people harsh
instead of making them happy and punctual. So, like everything else
daylight-saving activity has its own negative and positive impacts. And so many
developed nations have adopted this thing by coordinating with their public and
minimizing the disadvantages of this act.
Impacts of the daylight-saving act on the people of different fields.
People who have a connection with the theaters or film industry, they
don’t like this act of government because the public doesn’t want to see a good movie
in a dark theater when there is daylight outside. So, the activity of saving
daylight time may affect the working time and income of film actors and people
related to theaters.
The daylight saving time act has
become a myth for formers because they don’t have enough time to milk the cow, cut
the grass and after doing these necessary things, to harvest the crop and going
to market in order to cell the grain is so difficult which disturb the working
of framers who are considered the backbone of any agricultural country.
Positive impacts of the daylight-saving activity on different departments.
People having the busiest routine of life don’t have time for recreation and
shopping, daylight saving time act provide them a chance for outside recreation
and parties and due to these picnic parties, they got new ideas for working
batter, and on the other hand, they have proper time for shopping, in this way
the consumption of country goods helps the country to progress fast.
Daylight time-saving activity is fruitful to save energy many types of research have proved this fact that this act of daylight-saving time saves 0.3% energy
during day time and by applying this method every country may stop the extra use
of energy. A study of 2007 estimated that the daylight saving method in winter
preserves 2% energy every day during winter.
Daylight time saving has promoted the industry of golf by providing the
public one extra hour for playing golf or any other game of their interest. To
be curt, by regulating the schedules and timetables with the modern world any
country can progress. Because it’s a key to success.
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