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Daylight Saving Time

Posted on March 28, 2023 by admin1  64

In News

  • Recently Lebanon saw mass Confusion after its government decided to delay DST by a month.

About

  • Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of turning the clock ahead as warmer weather approaches and back as it becomes colder again.
  • The daylight saving time is followed in over 70 countries on various dates.
  • India does not follow daylight saving time; countries near the Equator do not experience high variations in daytime hours between seasons.
    • However,people of the North east have demanded a separate time zone to make up for the loss of daylight hours due to the longitudinal breadth of India .
  • Effectiveness in Modern world
    • When DST was introduced, more daylight meant  less use of costly artificial light. But modern society uses so many energy-consuming appliances all day long that the amount of energy saved is found negligible.
    • DST also disrupts the rhythm of the body clock or circadian rhythm which decreases the efficiency of the workforce.

Source:IE


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