Dr. Rebecca Struthers

But since then, there are plenty more studies that have found we use even more energy, particularly in warmer climates when you're using air conditioning for longer hours in the evening to keep your environment cool for you.

So what we gain in saving on lights, we're losing in air conditioning and heating.

It wasn't me personally.

I'm a great advocate for having a much healthier relationship with the clock and I think weirdly being a watchmaker has helped.

They are beautiful things.

I make mechanical watches but I've worked and restored them that date back hundreds of years.

They are an incredible work of human innovation but we started tracking time to help us live better lives.

to help things like farming, to help us coordinate ourselves, to get to market at the right time, to get the best fruit and veg.

We developed this time to help us to communicate, to travel.

We didn't pursue this interest in time to regulate us to the extent we do today.

Yeah, in many ways.

But we need it because technology needs it.

For example, if we really did abolish all time, the world as we know it would cease to exist.

So that's quite almost a scary life.

Everything from your GPS would go.

Your computers would stop working altogether because all data needs to be timestamped to prevent it from becoming jumbled.

So we'd have no technology at all.

Media, TV, radio.

Yeah.

I quite like summertime, I'm going to be honest.