Tonight, like every year, solar time returns: clock hands go back one hour. Despite the news that it is the last time of solar time, every year the time comes to put the hands back one hour. This year, however, with the energy crisis and increasingly expensive bills, having one hour less of light can weigh even more on consumption. Yes, because as a disadvantage of solar time is having one hour less of light since it will actually get dark earlier. This year for the expensive bills, one hour less of light It can be an additional expense for families already heavily affected
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Of course it could be compensated by the fact that in the morning we will have an extra hour of light since it will be day earlier but it depends a lot on the type of consumption that you have. A shop is closed in the morning while in the afternoon it is open and therefore it will have to turn on the lights earlier accordingly. In short, in addition to the classic considerations on solar time and the usefulness or otherwise of using it, this year we will also have to consider the consumption aspect.
So from OCTOBER 30th, daylight saving time will come into effect. Furthermore, not everyone wants daylight saving time, in fact there have been several attempts to abolish it, such as Codacons, which in March asked that daylight saving time be left all year round. It seems that the time change can generate symptoms such as stress, tiredness, exhaustion, loss of appetite, mood problems and difficulty concentrating, in addition to the inconveniences due to the time adjustment such as the adjustment of numerous electronic devices.
THE HISTORY OF SOLAR TIME IN ITALY
On our peninsula, daylight saving time was born as a war measure in 1916, remaining in use until 1920. During the Second World War it was abolished and reintroduced several times, it was definitively established by law only in 1965 and from the following year it has been a fixed appointment every year, even if until 1980 it lasted only 4 months.
Its duration was finally extended by a few more weeks in 1996.
Many will wonder what the reason is for the introduction of daylight saving time and its continuous alternation with solar time: let us remember that the transition between daylight saving time and solar time 2022 It is linked to issues concerning energy saving, even though it affects almost all citizens' habits.
How did we historically arrive at the decision to change, at a certain point in the year, from daylight saving time to provisionally replace thesolar time? It was 1784 when Benjamin Franklin published in the French newspaper Journal de Paris an idea based on the concept of energy saving. However, more than a century passed before, in 1907, Franklin's project was taken up by an English builder, William Willet.
This time the new proposal found more consensus due to the situation of great economic hardship that the war soon brought about and then in 1916 the English House of Lords gave the green light for what would later become the change daylight savings time (the clocks were initially moved forward in the summer). In the countries of the European Union and in Switzerland, daylight saving time begins on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October.
Article published on 29 October 2022 - 18:38
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