The permanent time application will not change: stress, anxiety and depression are experienced less

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources said it was observed that negativities such as “anxiety, stress, depression” were experienced less with the application of permanent time application. With said application, the “summer-winter time” application was removed in 2016 and continuous summer time started to be applied. In the morning, citizens had started going to work and school even before sunrise.

Dönmez answered a deputy’s question motion on the “permanent daylight saving” time application.

Dönmez noted that in the report prepared by Istanbul Technical University (ITU), the psychological and sociological effects of constant time application on electricity consumption and its psychological and sociological effects had been analyzed.

The minister shared the following: “In this context, taking into consideration the population in the west of our country, urbanization, industrialization, and energy density, the permanent application of current day light time practice (GMT+3)  causes us to benefit day light for a longer time and provides a significant contribution to energy efficiency as well as the fact, changes in hours are observed to bring anxiety, stress, depression. Therefore, in accordance with the results of scientific analysis, we prefer current time application.”