Choose Healthtime!

About us

Gezondtijd! ('Health time!' - a Dutch play on words referring to 'gezondheid' = health and 'tijd' = time) is a collaboration between several advocates for a healthier time policy in the Netherlands: Better Times Platform (formerly B-Society NL), Standard time and Stop the summertime, the clock has to turn back (including a petition with over 64.000 signatures)

In response to the EU proposal 'European directive on discontinuing seasonal changes of time' and the usual sentiment-based discussions on this topic, we have joined forces to draw attention to the new scientific insights into this complex issue and its broad social impact.

DST-changes and time zone have a broad social impact

We have been invited to the various DST expert sessions that the Ministry of the Interior (BZK) held from October 2018 to June 2019. On August 15th we presented and explained our position paper 'Timing is everything’ to BZK officials. They forwarded our paper for notification to the Royal Institute For Public Health and Environment (RIVM) and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS). 

Want to know more?

You can check out some interesting articles and research links from our paper's references under Resources. Our position paper is now available in English and can be downloaded from the sidebar to the right or below. Table of contents:

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