Medical experts in Estonia and Latvia established that transition of clock hands twice a year causes stress, irritability and illnesses, breaks a hormonal balance, for children and old men in particular. Not without reason the Baltic States passed from the Euro-American TES in March, 2000 to the all-the-year-round zone time. But the scientists and their population were enjoying life not so long: the European Council forced the Baltic States to return in 2003 to euro-American TES, having threatened by their no acceptance to the European Union.
As BBC informed on September, 5, 2006, US, British and Israeli physicians surveyed 100 thousand citizens and have established, that the spring transition to "summer" time practically broke the normal work of the internal clocks to all children and teenagers, and also the adults elder than 40 years.
The losses rendered to a national economy of the European countries because of strong weariness of people, caused by chronic not getting enough sleep are estimated by experts to more than in 400 billion euro annually. Application of the "summer" time is harmful even from the ecological point of view.
However instead of expected logical return of the USA to zone time, that could force the Russian Federation authorities to achieve the consent of life with the Nature in time, the US Congress even decided to prolong since 2007 the action of the "summer" time for 3 weeks - with transition from winter time (zone time in their case) to the "summer time" two weeks earlier, than in Europe, and return to zone time one week later. Members of the US Congress have been convinced, by the article `Transition to summertime - a mini-problem of 2000', published in the New York Times on March, 8 2007, that this summer time prolongation will allow to save 10, 8 million tons of coal, and prolongation of the summer advancing of the Nature for one week (from October, 28 till November, 4) will allow citizens «to get warm more on the sun ».
The first reason is quite incorrect, because in winter half-year as calculations have shown, no economy of the electric power on illumination of dwellings and workplaces exist. Moreover: prolongation of "summer" time reduces serviceability of the US population on 0, 3 % and the additional losses of GNP considered in the prices of 2004, - 3, 9 billion dollars as minimum.
The second reason is looking more ridiculous: is it possible to speak about any sunburn in November?
So who has inspired the US Congress to accept such erroneous decision? As it follows from the mentioned article in the New York Times, the MICROSOF is the initiator of this harmful both to the population and the US economy action. This company is the world's largest manufacturer of personal computers. It also makes computers with CLOSED software, inaccessible for the user. Every computer produced by MICROSOFT contains a summertime calendar which is necessary to modify because of "summer time" prolongation, inviting for this operation the company's representative. This proof-reading will cost almost 50-200 dollars to every user of PC in the USA (except the newest, after 2007, computers). Multiplying to numbers of personal computers in US we could estimate potential incomes. Objectively - the cost of monopolism and a consequence of closeness of the software not using, for example, in the software by the LINUX Company.
Interesting, what kind of software will follow the million of PC to be provided by Bill Gates according his deal with the government of the Russian Federation?
To complete the told above, that prolongation of "summer" time period in the US is favorable not only to MICROSOFT, but to pharmaceutical and entertaining business as well.
In whole this prolongation is evidently unprofitable to the overwhelming majority of the population and the US economy.
Therefore SPb committee and the author of the article demand from authority of the Russian Federation not to follow the lead at all of the US Congress and, yet late, to specify conditions of delivery of the MICROSOFT computers to Russia.
To reduce the acuteness of demographic crisis in our country, it is necessary first of all - to reduce the rate of super death in Russia, and thus not only to return to zone time, not only canceling the all-the-year-round «decree hour» - unknown for the majority of people - and "summer" time but also to get rid from permanent within the year - the time of work (studies) beginning. The last is simply unacceptable to Russia, the country immensely extended by latitude, and where the difference between sunrise time in winter in the south and in the north extremities of each time zone counts more than four hours.
According the SPb Committee calculations, it is useful for health and effective for manufacture, including employers profits, to begin working (educational) day in the given area of every time zone in winter half-year two hours later, averages after sunrise in this area in day of a winter solstice (in Northern hemisphere - on December, 22, in Southern - on June, 22). In summer - half-year (from March, 21 till September, 23 - in Northern hemisphere, and in Southern - from September, 23 till March, 21) work and study should begin earlier, than in the winter. In areas within latitudes from 20 to 40 degrees - half an hour earlier; in latitudes from 40 to 60 degrees - to one hour; within latitudes from 60 degrees to the Polar circle - one and a half hours earlier.
In equatorial and tropical areas within latitudes up to 20 degrees both in winter and summer you ought to begin working day at the same time averages two hours later after sunrise. Obeying the habitual and useful `siesta' - a day time break in work - due to high air temperature in afternoon.
The SPb committee believes expedient in our pragmatic age to found essential premiums to those representatives of authority who will provide transition of their countries to consent of a social rhythm of a life with a natural rhythm of day and night change. In fact such transition will lead to growth of gross national product and accordingly - to growth of a profitable part of the budget because of people's serviceability growth. Its rate could rich in the countries with summer shift of clock's hands concerning time zone for one hour - minimum 3%, and in the countries with the Russian system of time calculation even to 10 % …