英語検定ライティング準１級（第155回）

夏時間「残業好きの民族には無理な話」

サマータイムはいろんな国で採用されてる。昔はロウソクの節約ということで夏は早めに起きようという提案をした学者がアメリカにいたらしい。ロウソクの減り方は目に見えるからね。
Daylight-savings time has been adopted in various countries, we hear, and a certain scholar in America suggested that they could save an amount of candles when they changed the starting time in the morning 250 years ago, who with this novel and positive opinion must have been a genius, but in vain, to our regret.
Those who were against him felt jealous to him because they must have understood his idea’s advantages.

現代なら温暖化防止とかサマータイムは省エネになるから支持されそうだ。交通事故や夜間犯罪も減りそうだ。いいことづくめのようだが、日本で採用するのは至難の技らしいとのと。
Adoption of summer time system should be supportable in this modern age because energy saving could make a difference when we find it vital to prevent this global warming phenomenon.
This system might reduce the number of traffic accidents or crimes during the night, so we assume that it makes only positive contributions to our society, but it is almost impossible for Japan to realize this system.

個人のところで言えば、体内時計が崩れるので調整が難しいと言われている。だが時差ボケよりはマシなような。時差ボケは海外旅行のようなレジャーだから一緒にすなとか言われそう。
A common citizen find it difficult to keep his or her biological clock normal in the personal level, we hear.
But the system shouldn’t be criticized because a jet lag is even more terrible and negative, we tend to assume.
But a get lag happens when we enjoy traveling abroad, so there is a tremendous difference between our leisure and the duty of the summer time system.

航空ダイヤとか鉄道ダイヤの変更もややこしそうだ。コンピュータの2000年問題を想起させる。あれは確かたくさんのインド人に助けてもらったような気がする。インドの凄さもね。
The change of both the flight schedule and the railway counterpart could make negative contributions to the public, but year 2000 problem of personal computers shouldn’t make a difference negatively, which was rescued by many Indian experts instead of Japanese.
And Indian scientists have been appreciated highly in Japan, we assume.

結局は残業の問題らしい。勤勉な民族には残業がつきまとうから。明るいうちは仕事しちゃうわな。スペインなんかシエスタがあるからサマータイム制度は神なんじゃねえかと思うよね。
After all, what we cannot overcome is that people in Japan fail to reject to be employed after return time.
Numerous industrious people in our society tend to work overtime, so we continue to work while the sun shines, to our regret.
Spain might welcome the summer time introduction because they could work during the night hours, which can be realized due to the afternoon relaxing time called “Siesta,” which Japanese society wouldn’t admit.