U.S. Daylight Savings time change for 2011
November 5th, 2011 - 12:15 am ICT by Aishwarya BhattNew York, Nov 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Daylight Saving Time in the United States will end on Sunday (6th of November 2011); a week after the rest of the world turned their clocks one hour backwards. Americans will turn back the clock at 2 a.m. on Sunday to mark the end of the period which is meant to save energy.
The practice of moving the hour hand of the clock is a controversial one. The effects it had on the body have been debated for a long time. Different researches have given contradictory results on the effect of the practice on the body.
The controversy has to do with the in-built ‘body clock’ which regulates how the body behaves. One of the researches into the effect of the practice on the body was conducted by scientists led by Till Roenneberg of Ludwig Maximilans University in Munich, Germany.
Roenneberg explained that, “When you change clocks to daylight saving time, you don’t change anything related to sun time. This is one of those human arrogances, that we can do whatever we want as long as we are disciplined. We forget that there is a biological clock that is as old as living organisms, a clock that cannot be fooled. The pure social change of time cannot fool the clock.”
US Daylight Saving Time is defined by the Energy Policy Act which was passed in 2005.
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