DST goes into tonight – AD.nl

By: editors
28-3-15 – 23:55 Source: Reuters © anp.

Tonight the summertime at again. The clock is turned off for one hour to 02.00 making the night one hour shorter.

All countries in the European Union since 2002, let go into the summer time on the last weekend in March. Worldwide resist approximately seventy countries twice a year the clock.

By the summer time may be longer benefit from natural light. According to proponents DST saves energy. Lights burn example shorter. Critics say that the effect is not detectable or so small that the disruption of the biological rhythm is not worth it.

In the last weekend of October summer time is over. Then begins the winter time and the clock goes back an hour.