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Natural time is the sun-based social clock time that most closely matches the natural sun path for any given region. Its adoption as a permanent civil time has been recommended by sleep and chronobiology researchers (citations) due to reported health complications that arise from a misalignment between internal/circadian clocks and social times, also called social jetlag. Due to the constancy of social times, a civil time aligned with the wrong time zone is a major source of social jetlag (citations), further exacerbated by the introduction of Daylight Saving Time (DST). It has also been reported in other sciences, such as social and economical, that poorly set time zones have a negative impact on society (cit), although certain claims are the subject of ongoing discussion.

Definition
Natural time, sometimes addressed as natural time zone (cit) is the social clock time that reflects the most geographically appropriate, sun-based time zone for a given region. When civil time observes natural time, the yearly average culmination time (i.e. when the sun is at its highest point) matches noon (12:00, using a 24-hour clock). Due to geopolitical constrains when setting civil time, such as geographic borders of political entities, or the set one hour offsets applied when following Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a perfect alignment is not always possible. It is noteworthy that a few time zones exist where a 30 to 45 minute offset has been applied (e.g. Nepal Standard Time, UTC+05:45; Newfoundland Time Zone, UTC−03:30). To follow a time closest to natural time, civil time would have to follow the time zone for which its yearly average culmination time would be the closest to noon.

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