Global Clock
Synchronization
By
Irshad Mahmood – Director, Global Right Path
Daylight Saving Time is
increasing challenges to science, engineering as well as our body and
our life could be in danger.
Health
Effects due to Daylight Saving Time:
DST can affect both your
body clock
and health. Studies show that there is an increase in both heart
attacks and road accidents in the days after clocks are set forward one
hour in spring.
Setting your clock
forward one hour
for Daylight Saving Time (DST) could mean losing an hour of sleep on
the morning after the change.
Being tired can decrease
productivity, concentration, and general well-being. Several studies
also link DST to increased risk of heart attacks, road accidents, and
sleep problems:
Challenges
to Science & Engineering:
Clock synchronization is
a problem
from computer science and engineering which deals with the idea that
internal clocks of several computers may differ. Even when initially
set accurately, real clocks will differ after some amount of time due
to clock drift, caused by clocks counting time at slightly different
rates. There are several problems that occur as a repercussion of clock
rate differences and several solutions, some being more appropriate
than others in certain contexts.
Economic
Impacts:
All of these impacts
have economic
costs too. An index from Chmura Economics & Analytics, released
in
2013,
suggests that the cost could be up to $434 million in the
U.S.
alone. That's an estimated total of all of the health effects and lost
productivity mentioned above.
Other calculations
suggest this cost
could be up to $2
billion - just from the 10
minutes twice a year that
it takes for every person in the U.S. to change their clocks. (If you
calculate 10
minutes per household instead of per person this
"opportunity cost" is only $1
billion.).
Global
Clock Synchronization (GPS Clock):
The "LONGITUDE"
(abbreviation: Long., λ, or lambda) of a point on the Earth's surface
is the angle east or west from a reference meridian to another meridian
that passes through that point.
The World started going back towards
normal one Global Clock Synchronization. Majority of countries never
observed Daylight Saving Times. In 2014,
Russia left permanent DST and
switched to permanent standard time.
Farmers never go with
Daylight Saving Times rather they go with Sunrise and Sunset.
It is time now to switch back to
one
Global Clock Synchronization by leaving permanently Daylight Saving,
since it is creating more problems and more unsynchronized world as
well as bad for our economy as well as for our health.
Offset for time zones on lands
from Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) MUST be set to 30
minutes if not 15 minutes apart instead of a whole number of hours, regardless of
boundary of any provinces, states or countries, rather to follow lines
of one Global Standard
longitudes, keeping in mind that one time zone for a city
or village, but provinces, states or countries can have different time
zones. Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia,
Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom and
USA etc. already
have
multiple time zones in their countries. Time zone in one region will
have one standard time, regardless of north or south of equator.
E.g.
many cities falling in one region of North America (e.g. Canada
&
USA), Central America (e.g. Dominican Republic) or South America (e.g.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil & Venezuela) will have one standard
time.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_synchronization
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-health.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/economic-and-health-effects-of-daylight-saving-time-2014-3