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"Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"
Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English—see Terminology) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist. Many countries have used it since then; details vary by location and change occasionally. The practice is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming, evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun. Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight; its effect on health and crime is less clear. Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited and often contradictory. DST's occasional clock shifts present other challenges. They complicate timekeeping, and can disrupt meetings, travel, billing, recordkeeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Many computer-based systems can adjust their clocks automatically, but this can be limited and error-prone, particularly when DST rules change.
oh... really, I adore it when I have a chance to sleep even one more hour So, I really like it when all clocks are adjusted backward one hour in autumn )))) but! When they are adjusted forward , it's like a real torture. it seems to me that somebody has stolen MY time...
"it seems to me that somebody has stolen MY time.." Such thoughts always occur in my mind when I have to adjust clocks forward. I find it so unjust! I do understand that it will be compensated in autumn but still some offence remains. Maybe, it's in our nature... to accept gifts and to shout when we're robbed!?
Hm... I see only one advantage of this DST: one day a year I can sleep 7-8 hours instead of 6-7. All the other time I go to sleep at 1-2 a.m. and wake up at 8-9 a.m. So... Maybe for our country it's very useful, but for me...I would better go get some .
Frankly speaking, I do not notice that this change has a strong impact on me. No matter whether the daytime is one hour longer or shorter, there are still only 24 hours. And I need probably 30 hours to do even half of the things I've arranged...
As for me, it's not easy to change my daily routine in spring, because I really feel that I lose an hour. In autumn the situation is quite different. We have one hour more for sleeping!
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