Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Daylight Saving Time

Do you know? We have to correct your clock in this weekend and we have to get up early. Why do we have to do? Because the move back from daylight saving time to standard time will take effect at 2 a.m. on first sunday in November. In summer season, we has been effected by daylight saving time, but we will retern to standard time in next week.

I didn't think about daylight saving time before I came here. Because we don't have daylight saving time in Korea. For the first time, I really confused. I didn't know why people change the standard time, and what is daylight saving time.

Nowadays Korea is tring to adopt daylight saving time. It make people confuse, but why Korea government is tring to adopt it? What is positive side, and what is nagative side? We need to think about it.

Daylight Saving Time is the practice of turning the clock ahead as warmer weather approaches and back as it becomes colder again so that people will have one more hour of daylight in the afternoon and evening during the warmer season of the year.

It save energy. It's one of the biggest reasons we change our clocks. If we adopt daylight saving time, we will get up early. We will start working one hour early and finish early. We will go to bed early too. For one hour, we can use daylight more than don't adopt daylight saving time.
If people expose to the sun more long time, they will be more healthier than before. This is another reason.

Even though daylighting saving time has good reasons, many country don't adopt this system. Because it make people confuse. If a country is effected by daylight saving time, whenever people go to forign country, they have to concern about the time. Birthday can be changed, and people have to change their life rhythm.