The winter day as a constraint for human activity in Western Europe
Abstract
Time use surveys in Denmark, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy and United Kingdom are analyzed to provide start, noon and end times for the main activities of a society: labor (the focus of this preprint), sleeping and eating. Also, the location at home is analyzed. Local times are converted into mean solar times and compared to latitude. Observed trends allow to unveil the winter day as a restriction for the human activity. Alternatively, apparently large time differences set forth by clocks, becomes smaller when observed as a time distance to winter sunrise or sunset.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.04903,
title = {The winter day as a constraint for human activity in Western Europe},
author = {José-María Martín-Olalla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04903},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
11 pages, 7 figs Correction: tipos in figures. Corrected: Fig. 2 incorrectly displayed open symbols and timestamps. Some were missing. Added: summer sunset line in Fig. 6 is delayed by 1h due to DST. Added: Isbn to reference 9