[ad_1]
A 19th-century alarm clock reminds the employees of the Klaipėda Clock Museum to get to work, and it really is something to do: on Sunday, March 28, Lithuania switches to daylight saving time, so it will be necessary to turn the clock hands one hour ahead.
The Clock Museum staff began preparing for the change a few days ago; Here, when you switch to summer or winter time, you have to turn the hands of hundreds of clocks.
“Yes, there are more than 500 exhibits in the entire exhibition, but we have more in our collections. There are auxiliary and basic funds. There are 1,500 exhibits in the main fund, ”said Danutė Menkutė, an employee of the Klaipėda Clock Museum.
Although it is not necessary for a compatriot to turn so many clocks, perhaps for people the transition to summer or winter time has already sunk to the bone. Asleep, late or unbalanced: this is how Lithuanians wake up after a good week turning the clocks.
“It just came to our attention then. And especially when you have kids. It comes after that: the whole agenda is mixed. In a word, the biggest problem is that.”
“Uncomfortable.”
“I think those twists and turns are enough. Enough is enough. We already screwed up.”
“How do your animals react to that clockwork? – Requires eating before. The children too. He wakes up earlier, he also wants to go to bed earlier and that has a huge impact.
Veterinarians share the opinion of this Klaipeda resident. Although the rotation of the clock does not cause direct harm to the member of the family of four, sooner or later the owner who awakens also breaks the normal regimen for the pet.
“Because the animal is still used to getting up, going out, being taken out, fed, cared for. And when the foster regime changes, the animal no longer understands why it is not being bred at that time. The adaptation takes about two weeks, ”said veterinarian Robertas Bartkus.
And here doctors say that it is not just the clockwork that affects people’s well-being. They agree that such a change in the rhythm of life at night can even lead to a depressed mood, because when they fall asleep, the body begins to produce less of the so-called serotinin, the hormone of happiness. However, we also deplete the body in our way of life.
According to the doctors, the holidays on Sundays and the early commute to work on Monday are also no less harmful to health.
“If we consistently live without a normal regimen, then we are just as damaging to our body as we are about to go back in time. Because we go to sleep at different times, we wake up in the same way, not at the same time, so we lack normal sleep at night, in the morning we wake up tired, not rested, our work throughout the day suffers, ”said Kristina Prūselaitienė, a doctor at Klaipėda University Hospital.
It is not clear how many more years we will turn the clocks twice a year in this way. Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not find time to comment on such a public issue. The last time MEPs decided whether or not to back down in 2019. However, there is still no common agreement on how to proceed between the countries of the European Union.
This is why doctors are offering people the practice of turning clocks. Younger compatriots should get up every minute twenty minutes earlier in the week before turning the clock. Older people have a longer adaptation period: they have a month before the arrows to get up early.
[ad_2]
