Many countries in the world follow the practice of Daylight Saving Time (DST). In summer they shift the time ahead by an hour and in the winters bring it back to its actual setting. The idea is to take an hour of light from the day and add it to the evening. Thus, between March and November the sun effectively sets 60 minutes later than the usual.
It was my recent change of residence to Uppsala, Sweden that brought DST to my attention. My question is that why is the clock shifted back at all in winters? Logically, it is in the fall season that I would actually prefer to have a longer duration of daylight. Shouldn't then the DST be implemented the other way round? :)
2 comments:
You are right. There is actually no logic. It was of one of the measures introduced during the Second World War to save resources, including time. But this has just got carried over.
The logic as I see it is that when there is longer daylight, work longer. And in winter, be lazy.
In countries like Sweden where I have heard that during the summers the Sun doesn't set before 10 pm and then rises again just a few hours later using DST doesn't make much sense. There is too much of light anyway. :p
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