OR time change On the last Sunday of March, (30.3.2025), where we spend the summer time, it can adversely affect our body after losing an hour of sleep.
Although most are adapted within a few days of time change, some may take time and feel drowsiness in the morning, fatigue and increased stress, which may have an impact on our office or school performance.
The time change disturb the (biological) clock of our body. According to surveys, in the first days after the time change, the risk of stroke and stroke is slightly increased, which is directly linked to sleep disorders.
So when our watch shows 03:00 am, we need to move the markers one hour ahead to show 04:00 am.
“We remind you that on Sunday, March 30, 2025, the application of the winter time is completed, in accordance with Directive 2000/84 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Consequently, citizens should adjust their watches by moving an hour ahead, from 03:00 am. At 04:00 am ยป It is stated in the announcement of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport for time change.
In March 2019, the European Parliament had voted in favor of ending this practice, ie the adjustment of the watches by one hour in spring and autumn by 2021.
“Changing the time has to be abolished,” said then -head Jean -Claude Juncker in 2018, following a relevant online survey throughout the EU.
84% of those who took part in it had agreed with the end of this practice. However, the Coronovirus Pandemic and then the War in Ukraine went back to the design, so the transition from winter to summer time continues.
When was it established in Greece
In Greece the summer time was first applied, trial, in 1932, and specifically from July 6 to September 1, where the watches were put up an hour ahead, but an idea that was rapidly abandoned. In 1973, however, due to the energy crisis that hit Europe, it was decided to adopt the summer time by much of the states, including Greece at the time. The new measure was first implemented in our country in 1975.