UK clock-changing rituals were first established about a hundred years ago. This ritual was established during the First World War under the Summer Time Act 1916, thinking that it might preserve fuel for the war effort in daylight.
Day by day moving to British Summer Time from Greenwich Mean Time became usual to the UK folks. As a result, therefore no operative plans to down the practice. Though it brings the argument that it hampers the natural timing and destroys our cognition of actual time.
Before the world, the economic productivity system was below the line and as well as tyrannical. Industrial capitalism by Marx and Engels in ‘Utopian Socialism’ destroyed an idyllic and melodious atmosphere of industrialism.
For modern environmental sustainability, there is nothing wrong with practicing better ideas than traditional ones though some utopian socialist rejects to accept modern environmental movements.
Medieval period facilities are different from today’s facilities. Many things of that time were based on natural resources which are now converted into advanced technology. The use of electricity reduced the dependents on daylight, modern sanitization reduced the percentage of illness, use of medicine decreased the rate of labor death. Modern people lead a healthy lifestyle than their medieval heirs and comprehensively live longer.
Clock changing rituals can have health costs. Research shows waking before eight hours of sound sleep on daily basis puts a lot of pressure on the heart. Modern peoples are dependent on an artificial alarming system that cause heart damage. A practice of the traditional siestas by Greece studies shows the process of reducing heart pressure. On the other hand, by doing globalization the practice of the Mediterranean lifestyle has been expelled.
The blue rays of laptops and smartphones affect the brain by delaying chemical reactions which is a barrier to the standard sleeping quality. The purpose of British Summer Time is a scheme of starting work one hour earlier which was made before mainly for the good use of daylight. The use of this scheme is not a necessity nowadays, yet hardly anyone questions the premises on which daylight savings policies rest.
Reformers suggested that adopting British Summer Time for all time will reduce road accidents. On the other hand, opponents in Scotland say dark winter mornings could increase road accidents while children have to go to school in the dark.
The context of the standardized working week created by the industrial revolution only makes sense when laborers turned into wage laborers and it brings huge loss to the agencies. Pre-industrial era workers were dependent on daylight. So, in a sense, it was a wise decision to staring work earlier in summer for competing with the clock.
Forwarding an hour of the summer working days is merely taken as an economic challenge for corporate profit, where human welfare loses its importance. By entering British Summer Time, the riddle of capitalism emphasizes us into an artificial function.
