We advocate for permanent, worldwide observation of natural time, facilitated by geographically appropriate, sun‑based time zones. History and a growing body of scientific evidence show this is essential for health, safety, education, work, economy, environment, and human rights.

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About Us

We are an international coalition of health advocates, time-use advocates, and NGOs, backed by chronobiologists, neuroscientists, and economists, working to raise public and political awareness of the need for permanent restoration of the natural time zones that are geographically appropriate to each state.

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We seek to provide citizens and lawmakers with complete, reliable information that is relevant and essential to the setting of civil clocks. We call upon the European Union, its national authorities, the federal, state, and provincial governments of the United States and of Canada, and the governments of all nations to acknowledge the available scientific evidence provided by the world’s leading researchers in chronobiology and environmental sciences, and to restore their state’s geographically appropriate time zones as soon as possible.

To each state its own natural time!

Why Natural Time?

An overwhelming and growing body of evidence from scientific studies and real-world trials shows that living in time zones that are not aligned with our internal biological clocks is both acutely and chronically harmful.

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Misalignment with our internal biological clocks significantly increases rates of sleep deprivation, sleep disorders, depression, metabolic disorders, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and early mortality. It disrupts traffic and work with decreased performance and increased accidents. It hinders education and learning ability. It shifts human activity times, escalating fuel consumption and energy waste. It needlessly burdens healthcare systems, economies, and the environment.

Acute misalignment with our internal biological clocks is forced on society through biannual clock changes in early spring and late autumn. Chronic misalignment is forced on society by adopting longitudinally inappropriate time zones. Permanent restoration of the time zone that is closest to a state’s natural time, as defined by the sun, solves both problems simply and easily.

It is a human right to live in conditions that permit the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Permanent and geographically appropriate natural time zones will improve quantity and quality of sleep. It will benefit mental health, physical health, longevity, and adolescent development. It will improve safety, alertness, and performance on roads, at school, and at work. In large countries spanning several time zones, natural time has proven to have a positive effect on the internal market. It will reduce expenses, pollution, and climate change. It will provide balanced and healthful benefits of natural day and night in all seasons. It is a vital aspect of a just and sustainable society.

Scientific Statements

Read Statements from Chronobiological Societies

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Read Statements from Sleep Societies

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Read Statements from Other Organizations

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Members

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Australia 🇦🇺 & New Zealand 🇳🇿

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No Daylight Saving Australia & New Zealand

Belgium 🇧🇪

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Vereniging Tegen het Zomeruur

Denmark 🇩🇰

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Landsforeningen Mod Sommertid

France 🇫🇷

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La Méridienne

Germany 🇩🇪

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In Normalzeit Leben

Germany 🇩🇪

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Zeitenwende

Netherlands 🇳🇱

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Platform Betere Tijden

Netherlands 🇳🇱

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Standaardtijd

Spain 🇪🇸

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Time Use Initiative

Sweden 🇸🇪

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NormalTid AllTid

United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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Solar Time

United States 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦

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Save Standard Time

Endorsers

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Belgium 🇧🇪

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Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen

Germany 🇩🇪

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BodyClock

Germany 🇩🇪

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Europa-Union Aschaffenburg

Germany 🇩🇪

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Zeitgestaltung

Germany 🇩🇪 & Portugal 🇵🇹

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BetterTimes

Hungary 🇭🇺

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Magyar Alvás Szövetség

International 🌐

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Good Light Group

Netherlands 🇳🇱

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BioClock Consortium

Spain 🇪🇸

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ARHOE

United States 🇺🇸

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Solar Clock

Join the Movement for Healthy, Fair, and Natural Time!

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Please visit our member groups and support their efforts. Write our national contacts below to get more involved in your country. Email our alliance if your group would like to become a member or endorser. Both are free of charge.

World Map

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National Contacts

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Australia 🇦🇺 & New Zealand 🇳🇿

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Ben Musgrave

No Daylight Saving Australia & New Zealand

Belgium 🇧🇪

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Ann Ceusters

Vereniging Tegen het Zomeruur

Denmark 🇩🇰

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Birgitte Gade

Landsforeningen Mod Sommertid

France 🇫🇷

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Maryvonne Bauer

La Méridienne

Germany 🇩🇪

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Andreas Rueff Dr‑Ing

Zeitenwende

Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

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Bolat Nurkhozhaev

Казахстану природное время!

Netherlands 🇳🇱

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Ticia Luengo Hendriks

Platform Betere Tijden

Norway 🇳🇴

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Trond Martin Langeli

Normaltid i Norge Hele Tiden

Portugal 🇵🇹

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João Lipinsky Nunes PhD

BetterTimes

Russia 🇷🇺

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Vyacheslav Sorokin

Поволжье: Время – Московское! UTC+3 & Саратов за Здоровое Время!

Spain 🇪🇸

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Ariadna Güell Sans

Time Use Initiative

Sweden 🇸🇪

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Susanne Gudmunds

NormalTid AllTid

United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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Stefano Pavone

Solar Time

United States 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦

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Jay Pea

Save Standard Time

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