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Spring brings daylight saving time, namely the convention, widely accepted in the Western world, to set clocks one hour ahead in order to have more light in late afternoon and a little less in early morning.

This change usually occurs in the last weekend of March.

Daylight saving time was first enacted in 1966 and, behind this decision, as the name suggests, there is a necessity of saving energy.

It was estimated that, thanks to daylight saving time, in 2016 only about 573 million kilowatt hours were saved.

Such is the average consumption of about 210,000 households.

Besides saving energy, daylight saving time helps to protect the environment, as at least 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide are prevented from going into the atmosphere.

Winter time comes back in Autumn, when shorter light hours make the change useless.

The main problem with daylight saving time is that we have one hour less to sleep.

But, from that day on, we will enjoy light for one more hour.

Of course this makes it possible to save money, as we don’t need to turn on the lights in our houses.

However, there are some drawbacks.

Some people find it very difficult to adapt to the change, and their circadian rhythm becomes disrupted.

What do you think?