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Resources

Here you will find a selection of interesting articles and research used for our position paper.In our position paper we explain these topics and how they are related to each other.

Political resources

• Standard time, summertime and health - Report by the RIVM (Dutch Royal Institute For Public Health and Environment), as commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, 15-11-2019
• Zomertijd en wintertijd - Dutch information- and documentation package by the ministerie of BZK (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)
• Seasonal changes of time - EU information- and documentation package
• Seasonal clock changes in the EU - EU Council of Ministers information- and documentation package
• Seasonal clock change in the EU - EU Transport Council information- and documentation package
  
• Expert workshop voor de EU Transport Commissie on 21-01-2019, videoregistration:
• Long distance travel – potential impacts (min. 16:00:08)
• Possible consequences on road safety (min. 16:08:10)
• Impacts on energy savings and energy markets (min 16:16:55)
• Potential health and well-being impacts (min 16:24:30)

• Observance of the system of European time zones - EU-report from 2000 mentioning a.o.t. air pollution

Scientific resources

• DST statement - Joint statement from the European Biological Rhythms Society, European Sleep Research Society en Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, 25-10-2018
  
• Zomertijd afschaffen - Joint statement from the Dutch Association for Sleep-Wake Research and the Dutch Society for Sleep medicine, 2018
  
• Impact of Daylight Saving Time on circadian timing system: An expert statement - Artikel in European Journal of Internal Medicine, 2018
  
• Why Should We Abolish Daylight Saving Time? - Position paper from the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, 06-06- 2019
  
• Time to Show Leadership on the Daylight Saving Time Debate - Editorial in Journal of Clinical Sleep Research, 2019
  
• Permanente zomertijd maakt ons dikker en depressiever -Position Dutch Brain Association, 2019

Chronobiology

• Press kit on DST - Society for Research on Biological Rhythms information- and documentation package
  
• Daylight Saving Time and Artificial Time Zones – A Battle Between Biological and Social Times - Article in Frontiers in Physiology, 2019
  
• 2017 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for the founders of the current knowledge about the biological clock
  

Health

• The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well - Article in The Guardian, Matthew Walker, 2017
  
• Social jetlag – are late nights and chaotic sleep patterns making you ill? - Article in The Guardian 2019
  
• ‘Catching up’ on sleep on the weekend doesn’t work - Source Colorado University, 2019
  
• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem - Article from the US Institute of Medicine, 2006
  
• How living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous to your health - Article in The Washington Post 2018
  

Economy

• Why sleep matters — the economic costs of insufficient sleep - Research by international think tank the Rand Corporation
  
• Effects of Daylight-Saving Time Changes on Stock Market Returns and Stock - Article in Psychological Reports 2013
  
• Sunset time and the economic effects of social jetlag: evidence from US time zone borders - Article in Journal of health economics, 2019
  

Education

• Time to learn: How chronotype impacts education - Article in PsyCh Journal, 2017
  
• Is 8:30 a.m. Still Too Early to Start School? A 10:00 a.m. School Start Time Improves Health and Performance of Students Aged 13-16 - Article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017
  
• Identifying the Best Times for Cognitive Functioning Using New Methods: Matching University Times to Undergraduate Chronotypes - Article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017
  

Traffic

• Impact of daylight saving time on road traffic collision risk: a systematic review - Article in British Journal of Medicine, 2017
  

Nature and the environment

• City lights make air pollution worse - Source PhysOrg.com, 2010
  
• The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness - Article in Science advances, Light-atlas en worldwide light pollution maps
  
• Signalen van brede gevolgen kunstlicht gevonden in natuur -Dutch Institute for Ecologie, 2016
  
  

Recommended books

• Paul Kelley, 2018: Body Clocks. The biology of time for sleep, education and work
  
• Matthew Walker, 2017: Why we sleep
• Chris Pearce, 2017: The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy
  
• Till Roenneberg, 2013: Internal time