What is “wintertijd” in the Netherlands?
Slaperig wakker worden na de wintertijd
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Picked for people who know a little
Twice a year, the Netherlands switches between wintertijd (“winter time,” standard CET) and zomertijd (“summer time,” CEST). The clocks move back on the last Sunday of October, forward on the last Sunday of March, and Dutch families spend the next morning trying to recalibrate kids and pets to the new schedule. The Netherlands has been a vocal supporter of abolishing the switch entirely; a 2018 EU-wide poll showed over 80% of Dutch respondents wanted to pick one and stop changing.
In this clip, a Dutch parent narrates a family waking up the morning after the wintertijd shift: “Het is nog hartstikke vroeg.” Kids in pajamas, parents pretending to function.
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- ▸In Dutch news coverage of the clock changes (NOS, NU.nl, RTL Nieuws)
- ▸In Dutch parenting writing about kids and sleep schedules (Kek Mama, Ouders van Nu, Trouw)
- ▸In EU-policy coverage of the proposed end of DST (De Volkskrant, NRC, European Parliament)
- ▸In Dutch sleep-science and chronobiology writing (NEMO Science Museum, De Correspondent, Universiteit Groningen)