Susanne boycotts summer time – does not show the clock

Tonight, the whole of Sweden changes its mind – but Susanne, 58, thinks it’s completely stupid.

Clever move: She boycotts daylight saving time.

– On Sunday, I will wake up with the light on and feel rested, she says.

For the 44th year in a row, Sweden changes the clock from winter time to summer time.

But Susanne Gudmunds, 58, from Vindeln will not do that. She has lived in winter time since 2017.

– I call it normal time, she says.

Want to live by the light

Susanne Gudmunds started getting involved in the issue of abolishing time changes several years ago, which also SVT Västerbotten reported on.

– It is important to go to bed because the body and the light want it. Not because the clock tells you to sleep. There is research that shows that, says Susanne Gudmunds.

Now she runs the campaign “Normal time always”.

– When I started to take an interest in the issue, I joined several groups that wanted to end daylight saving time. In the end, I got so much meat on my legs that I joined the strategy group for “Normal time always” and became Sweden’s representative for The International Alliance for Natural Time infocloseThe International Alliance for Natural Time The International Alliance for Natural Time is an international association that wants to abolish daylight saving time. , she says.

Adjusts his life according to his time

Only in October will the Swedes set the clock to winter time again.

So for the next seven months, Susanne Gudmunds will be living in a different time zone than the majority of people in Sweden. But she sees no problem with that.

– I adapt life to my time. If I’m going to a doctor’s appointment, or need to make an appointment, I always make it after 10 o’clock.

– I am suffering from exhaustion and am on sick leave, so I have no job to adapt to. So it works great, she says.

In 2018, the European Commission produced a proposal to abolish time change – but no decision has yet been taken.

The Swedish government has not taken a position on the proposal either.

– My goal is for the time change to end. We who live this close to the North Pole get so many extra hours of light during the spring and summer. We don’t need the time change, we need normal time, says Susanne Gudmunds.

– But maybe countries further south need the change.