Click to play videoBangalore: A stitch in time saves nine - two scientists from Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science have given a new meaning to this old proverb and are working on saving country’s Rs 1000 crore annually.
Scientists Dilip Ahuja and D P Sen Gupta are on a mission to re-invent Indian Standard Time and if have their way, your day will start half an hour earlier.
They have proposed that Indian authorities advance, once and for all, IST from being the time at the 82.5 degree East longitude at Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh to 90 degree East.
For the geographically challenged, that means they want the government to advance Indian Standard Time by half an hour in relation to Greenwich Mean Time.
So when it's 8 am in Silicon Valley, it will be around 9 pm in India, not 8.30 as it is now. It would also mean an extra half hour of evening daylight but later winter sunrises.
The scientists say the proposal which follows the daylight saving time system, will, in effect, make workday end sooner, reducing the electricity used in the evenings.
They say this will lead to energy savings as high as Rs 1,000 crore every year.
But Bangaloreans seem cynical about .
“As a working woman, I don not like this at all, it will disrupt my schedule,” says a housewife. A senior citizen seemed to disagree, “Half-an-hour is not enough, it should be one-and-a-half hours,” he said.
But will the theory stand the test of time? Well, only time will tell.
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