Daylight saving time returns tonight. It will go into effect on Sunday, March 30, when at 2 a.m. the clocks will have to be moved forward 60 minutes, and will end on October 26, with the return to standard time.

Daylight saving time is a convention that Benjamin Franklin launched in 1784 and Italy adopted during the First World War, to take advantage of sunlight and reduce consumption. The tradition has continued to this day and this year, Terna estimates, the economic savings in the next seven months will be around 100 million euros, thanks to a lower consumption of electricity equal to 330 million kWh which will also generate a significant benefit for the environment, which can be quantified in the reduction of around 160 thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

On daylight saving time, schools of thought continue to be divided between those who consider it fundamental and those who, instead, would like to overcome it . Even in Europe, where the practice was adopted in 1996 by all member countries other than Switzerland and the Eastern states (Russia also tried, but only until 2011, and then returned only to solar time), the debate is very heated , but so far every attempt has failed.

(Online Union)

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