At 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 27, we had to set our clocks forward to 3:00 a.m. (If you haven't done it yet, make up for it!) This marked the beginning of summer time, we can sleep one hour less again. In return, the days will be longer, and the lights will have to be turned on later. However, it is better to prepare mentally, because the sleep rhythm may be confused and we may be more tired in the days following the clock change.

According to eight out of ten respondents, it would be better if we did not change the clock twice a year, but instead had a single time calculation in our country and in Europe, it was revealed by the Publicus Institute March 22-25, 2021. from the survey conducted between According to last year's research, two-thirds of the respondents (65 percent) if they could choose a time calculation, they would choose the summer, when it is brighter at night. According to a quarter of those surveyed (26 percent), winter is better when it gets light earlier in the morning.

Summer time always starts on the last Sunday of March in other European countries and lasts until the last Sunday of October. Therefore, every year the clock is changed to a different day, which takes place at 1:00 a.m. according to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), so in Hungary, the clocks must be set one hour forward at 2:00 local time in spring, and one hour back at 3:00 in autumn.

It has been almost four years since the referendum in which the citizens of the EU member states were asked for their opinion on changing the clocks took place. The votes were unanimously in favor of canceling the time change, the overwhelming majority of the population in most member states was of the opinion.

However, it is not only the public transfer that would justify the cancellation of the clock change:

over the years, there has been a lot of research on its harmful physiological effects, from sleep and eating disorders to the increasing number of heart attacks.

Even the number of road accidents increases after the time change, and the productivity of workers decreases.

We can rightly ask Uncle Besenyő Pista if this is normal:

Source: aelvidek.ma

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