Tackling power crisis
Capt. Hasnat, PIL-BD, Agrabad, Chittagong
The government has taken a desperate but much effective step to reduce the sufferings of people from growing shortage of electricity by introducing shopping time until 7:00pm. It is a very fruitful attempt and most of the developed countries have been into the system for a long time where domestic consumption of electricity is phenomenal. Yet, there is one more very effective way to reduce electricity consumption by introducing so called "Day Light Saving Time", which, most of the developed world also embraced. If we advance our clock by one hour we can tap one hour of sunlight during the peak consumption time in the evening. It will just delay darkness to engulf by one hour by the clock, i.e., sunset will occur at 7.30pm instead of 6.30pm. Accordingly, sunrise will get delayed, instead of 5.30am it will occur at 6.30am new time maintaining day and night hours same as before. Only that we are delaying the sunrise by clock when most of us remain asleep and use the maximum of sunlight during our active hours. Besides utilizing maximum of sunlight it has other advantages too. It will not affect the sleeping time as usually we sleep by 10/11pm and will still do the same when our clock will show 10/11pm new time. Initially, there will be little discomfort to adjust our biological clock, which is very normal. We do not need to change any school or office time (unless school starts before 6.30am in summer and 7.30am in winter) to introduce this system. Rather, the markets can be kept open until 8:00pm(instead of 7:00pm) with the same effect on electricity consumption which will allow us some more time after office hours to do important household shopping. This arrangement will surely make the grumbling shop owners very happy. Unlike the developed world where they switch between advancing and retarding time as summer and winter approaches, we can make a permanent advance of one hour to make our standard time as GMT+7 hours.
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