[ad_1]
The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Iselin Nybø, responsible for the Justervesenet and the exact time in this country, apologizes for what will happen tonight.
– As Minister of Time, I deeply regret that 2020 is another hour. This has already been a very demanding year for many, he says in an article on regjeringen.no.
For NRK, Nybø says we can also choose to see it more clearly.
– Right now on Sunday we have one more hour. Although it means that this year it will be one more hour and it has been difficult enough this year, it also gives an extra hour on Sunday to do something nice, work or maybe sleep a little more.
– Correct and affordable
A woman on the street in Kristiansand believes that it is fair and reasonable for the Minister of Commerce and Industry to apologize.
– I grew up in the dark. I go into a coma and I get very, very angry. I could be happy again in two weeks, he says in the Nordland dialect.
The survey in Kristiansand shows that people have very different views on the ticking clock.
For some it is of absolutely no importance, while others think it is great to have an extra hour now in the fall.
– It gets brighter in the morning. Makes it easier to get up, says one of the respondents.
– If reason governs this, I agree with everything that has to do with reason. Agriculture is probably the one that depends the most on this, says an 86-year-old man.
Point out that it’s not difficult to get up in the morning when you’re older.
A much younger man would prefer to have the same time all year. Many share that opinion, we must believe an informal survey that NRK conducted in 2018.
So nine out of ten wanted such an arrangement.
Hear what people on the street in Kristiannsand think about setting the clock.
It is unclear how the publisher will finish the plan.
In 2018, the European Commission put forward a proposal to phase out the back-and-forth clock scheme. It is not yet clear whether they will continue to work on the proposal in the EU.
– Now it is still true that we set the clock. We are still waiting for the EU to make a decision on this. Parliament has decided to phase out daylight saving time, but the council has not yet considered the matter. They haven’t found time to do it this fall, Nybø says.
But even if the EU finally says “no” to daylight saving time, that doesn’t mean Norway will automatically do the same.
– We have not made up our minds about it, but it is natural to wait and see what the EU does before we make a decision ourselves, says the Minister of Trade and Industry.
Disputed
Tonight the clock will be set to 03:00, and then back to 02:00.
The idea of starting the clock was proposed by the American physicist Benjamin Franklin in 1784. The reason was to save energy. If daily activities could be carried out to a greater extent in daylight, less oil would be used for oil lamps.
It took more than 130 years before the idea was put into practice.
It first happened in countries that were at war during World War II, such as Germany, Great Britain, and France.
After the first trial in Norway in 1916, and during several trial periods thereafter, the scheme was reintroduced in 1980. At that time, all EU countries had daylight saving time, but with different starts and ends.
The scheme has been controversial for a long time. Also in this country.
– Many think that we have summer and winter hours. Many would probably like us not to set the clock, especially those who have children or are struggling to cope with the fact that time is changing. For now, we must defend winter time and summer time, says Norway’s “weather minister”.
