For the first time, the transfer of the clock hands, due to the division of the year into "winter" and "summer" time, was made back in the Soviet Union, in 1981. Then this transition was motivated by the desire to save electricity by extending daylight hours. However, even then it became clear that such a temporary transition did not represent any particular economic benefit, and many countries that introduced it in their country canceled it almost immediately.
Time games
The decisions taken by the Soviet government in 1981 were canceled in Russia only in 2011 at the initiative of Dmitry Medvedev, who was then president. As a result of this, to put it mildly, ill-considered decision, Russia began to live, 2 hours behind astronomical time, which is most habitual for humans and animals in biological and physiological terms.
Switching the hands by 1 hour every six months led to a drop in milk yield, weight gain and other indicators in farm animals.
The fact is that the first movement of the hands one hour ahead was carried out according to the decree of the Soviet Power back in 1918, and all the years until 1981 the citizens of the USSR lived 1 hour ahead of the movement of the sun. After a presidential decree in the summer of 2011 canceled the reverse transfer of the hour hands to "winter", the final lead was already 2 hours. But since human nature was initially subordinated not to the orders of the authorities, but to natural biorhythms, this difference became so discordant that doctors have already stood up for the return of astronomical time.
What is the risk of violation of natural biorhythms
After a while, even a one-hour change that occurs every six months was recognized as harmful to the health of humans and farm animals. Immediately after the transfer of the arrows, for a month or two, the bulk of the population suffered from chronic lack of sleep and fatigue, which it caused. Then, of course, the body got used to it, but after a few months it again experienced another stress from moving the arrows back.
The next translation of the arrows, bringing the life schedule of Russians closer to astronomical time, is scheduled for the spring of 2014.
In itself, a reasonable decision to stop the transfer of arrows was implemented at the wrong time, and the 2-hour difference with natural rhythms resulted in problems not only with the physical, but also with the mental health of the population. The statistics of the Ministry of Health indicate an increase in the number of deaths by 65-70 thousand people per year, in addition, the number of suicides and accidents has also increased significantly. People more often go to doctors for depression and chronic stress, myocardial infarction. A forced change in biological rhythms due to nature leads to an imbalance, because getting up 2 hours earlier, a person does not see sunlight in the morning. His nervous system cannot begin to function normally, since it is practically night outside the window. Doctors strongly recommend canceling daylight saving time and never moving the hands forward or backward again.
