Spring time change in Hungary: an important date is approaching

The spring 2024 clock changeover is set for 31 March (Easter Sunday), signalling the transition to daylight saving time. At 2:00 a.m., clocks will spring forward to 3:00 a.m., resulting in one hour less sleep that night.

Start of daylight saving time: 31 March 2024 (Easter)
End of daylight saving time: 27 October 2024.

The clock changeover is causing damage on many fronts

While the positive benefits of the clock change are debatable, the literature provides plenty of evidence about the negative consequences. Some studies have shown that the habit has led to a spectacular 30 percent increase in fatal traffic accidents after the clock changeover and a 6 percent increase in workplace accidents during the first Monday after the changeover, vg.hu reports.

The number of medical malpractice cases increases by 19 percent in the week after the clock change, the number of heart attacks rises by 29 percent, strokes by 8 percent and the number of patients with depressive symptoms increases by 11 percent during the same period.

The primary cause of the damage of the clock change is precisely what we all experience the morning after the change: either we are sleep-deprived because of a shorter than usual sleep period, or we oversleep because of an unusually long night, or we wake up at our usual time but the day is not where our biological clocks say it should be, and this completely confuses our sense of time.

Disrupting the sleep-wake cycle, known in the trade as the circadian rhythm, has far-reaching consequences, as we have seen from previous examples. The fact that the sunshine hits us at different times of the day, from one day to the next, also upsets our body’s hormone production, which can increase our overall stress levels, our blood pressure and even our blood sugar levels.

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