Summer Time Ended
The summer time has ended in Germany this night. Every year we shift the clock one hour forward in spring and undo everything in autumn. I think many people are annoyed by this law and do not really like it, even politicians agree that the former plan to save energy (compare English term daylight-saving time) was not really reached. Still, it has not been stopped, yet.
This night the clock has been switched from 3am to 2am and therefore the night was one hour longer.
There have been several periods in Germany for using daylight-saving time, the current one started in 1980 due to the oil crisis in 1973. The first introduction of daylight-saving time in Germany was in 1916.
One interesting aspect: According to researchers there are more traffic accidents on a Monday after switching time from normal time to daylight-saving time (one hour missing at night) than on a normal Monday. *
* http://www.zeitumstellung.de/warum-sommerzeit-winterzeit.html (German)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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