What is the purpose of daylight saving time? Detailed answer

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What is the purpose of daylight saving time?

Imagine that we get up at 7:00 in the morning and fall asleep at 23:00. Arriving home from work at about 18:30, we have dinner and are free after 20:00. It is already dark to go outside and rest. There is no time at all to enjoy a summer day.

Now imagine that we have moved the clock forward by one hour. A person does everything at the same time - but now, when he goes out in the evening at 20:00, there is still enough daylight time to relax. He "won" an hour of daylight!

Of course, daylight saving time does not add hours to the day. This is impossible. This is done in order to increase the number of hours during daylight hours, when the sun rises very early.

Summer time is especially convenient for city dwellers. It allows you to close shops, offices, factories at the end of the working day, when the sun is still high enough. Farmers and peasants who work by the sun usually do not switch to daylight saving time. They cannot work in the field until the morning dew has dried up or after it appears in the evening.

Do you know who invented daylight saving time?

Benjamin Franklin! In the XNUMXth century, while in France, he proposed this innovation to the Parisians, but they did not accept it.

Daylight Savings Time was first adopted during the First World War. At that time, there was not enough fuel to produce electricity, so it was necessary to save it. With the adoption of daylight saving time, many go to bed immediately after dark, while without it, if they had to stay awake until that time, it would be necessary to use electricity.

In 1915, Germany was the first to adopt daylight saving time, in 1916 it was done in England, in the USA - in 1918.

Author: Likum A.

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Why is it good to sleep in the middle of the day?

Currently, physiologists believe that a person should sleep not once, but at least twice a day. They have proven that a short nap in the middle of the day improves concentration and productivity.

So, for example, the speed of visual reaction (the time during which a person understands what is written on a computer screen) in the morning is 10 milliseconds, in the evening - 40. But if the subject slept during the day, then in the evening he perceives information as quickly as in the morning.

In favor of the expediency of daytime sleep, the fact that a person’s temperature during the day is not constant, but has two minimums - in the intervals of 3-5 and 13-15 hours. It is at this time that most people have the strongest desire to sleep.

This pattern is explained by the fact that our ancestors, primates, inhabitants of hot tropical countries, are mainly twilight animals, they are especially active at dusk, in the evening and in the early morning. And in the middle of the day, at the hottest time, they sleep under the canopy of dense crowns.

First in Japan, then in Europe, and now in the United States, many firms have begun introducing daytime naps. In the German town of Vechta near Hamburg, municipality employees can get 20 minutes of sleep a day if they wish. In order not to hire additional employees, the mayor's office decided in this way to increase the efficiency of the existing employees.

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