- The change of time from summer to winter is approaching, which will take place in 2025 earlier than usual.
- Time change has a negative impact on health, increasing the risk of depression, hormonal disorders and heart problems.
- Check why we change time at all and what are the historical roots of this controversial custom!
It’s because of the faster darkness. It is clear when we are at work. The changes also affect the hormonal economy – the secretion of stress hormone, i.e. cortisol, is disturbed. As a result, we are lethargic and we lack energy, even immediately after waking up. In turn, the change in winter to summer time causes the greatest difficulties in falling asleep, and this raises further problems. We are sleepy less effective at work, much more exposed to mistakes and accidents. Our immunity is also falling. Researchers also indicate that the number of heart attacks and strokes are increasing during the change of time. Although there were plans to give up manipulation of sometimes, changes are still used by almost 70 countries in the world. In October this year, we will again withdraw the clock hands.
Changing time from summer to winter 2025
By changing time to summer, we move watches from 2:00 to 3:00. Returning to winter time, we undo the tips from 3:00 to 2:00. In 2025, we changed time to summer on the night of March 29-30. We will return to winter in October, exactly at night from Saturday to Sunday from October 25-26. Last year, we withdrew watches from October 26-27, it is because we always change for winter time from Saturday to Sunday on the last weekend of October. Unfortunately, so far 2025 will not be the last in which we will change the watches. Dates of time changes are determined under the ordinance of the Council of Ministers. According to the applicable regulation, we will change time until the end of 2026.
Changing time in Poland
In Poland, the change of time was introduced for the first time between the First World War and in 1919. Later she returned several times during the Nazi occupation and: from 1946 to 1949, from 1957 to 1964 and from 1977. At first we went on winter on the last Sunday of September. It was like that until 1995. At that time, the days of rearranging clocks were announced in the Polish monitor.
Time change history
The idea of changing time came from savings. Benjamin Franklin was the first to mention it. One of the founding fathers of the United States, in 1784 noticed that if people had to sleep earlier, they would not have to work at the candles in the evenings. However, he did not take this idea seriously. British Willett approached the change of time seriously in the “Waste of Daylight” brochure, published in 1907. He did not convince the Great Britain’s government to his idea. The New Zealand entomologist – George Vernon Hudson applied to a change in time. In 1895, he presented the Philosophical Society at the Wellington Plan twice a change in time during the year – two hours back in October and two hours ahead in March. The pioneers of the change of time are Germany and Austria. The countries introduced it formally during World War I in 1916. All clocks were moved on April 30 by one hour ahead. This was to minimize the consumption of artificial lighting for the fuel needed to conduct hostilities. A few weeks later, other countries decided to take the same step, including Great Britain and France. After the First World War, most countries gave it up. The change of time returned during World War II.
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