Time may soon be up for Europe's 23-year experiment with harmonised daylight-saving
bright, cold day in April, and the clocks have sprung forward. The morning sun gleams alluringly as pupils arrive at the Fläming Gymnasium in Bad Belzig, a small town in the east German state of Brandenburg. But on this particular Monday, a day after the start of daylight saving, many of these children are accident-prone, easily distracted and tired, victims of the rich world’s biannual ritual of tampering with time.
That is if the research on daylight-saving time is to be believed. Disrupting adolescents’ sleep can play havoc with their bodies. Katrin Stachen says losing an hour’s sleep leaves her teenage daughter, whom she has just dropped off at school, tired for days. Adults suffer, too: one German study found a 25% growth in reported heart problems in the three days after the spring time change.So time may soon be up for Europe’s 23-year experiment with harmonised daylight saving.
The German Teachers’ Association , is also opposed. In December northern German towns would not see the sun until after 9.30am . Dark mornings delay serotonin secretion, which, says Mr Wiater, is especially bad for teenage brains. Katrin Wiencek, headteacher at the school in Bad Belzig and head of the localbranch, frets about parents on dark school runs crashing into the deer and boar that stalk the forests around the town. In Germany and elsewhere, the debate has only just begun.
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