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During the night of Saturday October 30 to Sunday October 31, France will change time. At 3 o’clock it will only be 2 o’clock. This change to winter time is still a big debate among the French. If, some find it completely useless, what are, in reality, the consequences of the change of time?
Rolling back your watch to enjoy daylight longer is an initiative that arrived in France in the 1917s. For the first time, that year, the country introduced the summer time regime. The objective is to synchronize the hours of activities of the country with the hours of sunshine. In short, it is introduced to save energy. Is this still the case ?
After World War II, the regime was abolished before being put back on the agenda in 1977 after the oil shock. According to a study, the time change would reduce our consumption by 440 gwh over a year, this is the equivalent of the electricity consumption of the metropolis ofAix-Marseille (Bouces-du-Rhône). However, with the advent of low-consumption light bulbs, the effect of the time change on the economy is less important. Today it would only represent a saving of 0.07% of our electricity consumption.
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