Daylight is precious. Let’s stop wasting it
Posted on | January 9, 2009 | No Comments
The Time Online has a great article about how changing the clocks for Daylight Savings can increase the affects of Seasonal Affective Disorder for those who are prone to the winter blues.
The author, Stuart Hampson has this to say about the origins of Daylight Saving Hours:
“Daylight saving time”, introduced in 1916, shifts our clocks forward an hour for seven months of the year. This was still geared to agricultural priorities, allowing farmers to work later on the harvest in daylight. It simply fails to recognise how we now live.
Our profligacy with daylight costs lives, wastes opportunities and is out of step with our concern for the environment.
There is massive public support behind the idea of stopping this antiquated ritual. Yes it would mean that mornings around the shortest day are darker, but sunsets would be later
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