Daylight saving time, how stressful. Punctual, like the leaves that fall from the trees in this period, come the appeals to maintain it beyond the established deadline. The days will shorten and the hours of darkness will increase. In the night between Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th October the clock hands must be set back one hour. Back to March 26th. But why is there a debate every year about whether or not it is worth maintaining daylight saving time? Worse than discussing football or the clothes of Elly Shlein.
The latest petition – obviously online – comes from Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (Yes but). Two weeks before the end of summer time, Sima announced that it had collected 330 thousand signatures to keep the clock moving forward all year round and forever. A serious thing.
Daylight Saving Time: Online petition to keep it year-round
The petition claims that the repercussions of the stop at the end of October will be felt on Italians' bills and on the environment. If, on the other hand, summer time became permanent it would produce less energy consumption of around 720 million kwh. Translated, Italians would save more than 200 million euro. Which Spectre, then, does not incorporate these numbers and forces us to live more hours in the dark?
The thousands of people who signed the appeal did not imagine that Hamas would cause yet another crisis in the Middle East with possible effects on the energy chain. Environmental doctors note this and also say that without changing the clocks we would avoid puffing in the air 200 thousand tons of CO2. In short, the algorithms that control the world and our hours of sleep are against economic savings and health.
At this point all that remains is to inform the prime minister Giorgia Meloni of the signatures of 330 thousand patriots and rely on his desire to sovereignize Italy and leave things as they are today. Be careful, however, of the pitfalls.
A 2019 EU directive provides wide discretion for the states of the Union to change summer time, and Sima herself reminds us of this. Quite a puzzle for the President, who, based on what she decides, runs the risk of not doing "trains arrive on time", almeno on the night of October 28th.
Nunzio Ingiusto's article convinced me. These days the energy savings we would have must be taken into consideration.