© Alex EvansRenate Stahn at 1pm German time, midday her time.
A Berlin pet shop owner is living an hour behind the rest of the country after refusing to put her clocks forward for summer time. She has encouraged her neighbours to join the protest and tellsThe
Local why.
Renate Stahn, who grew up in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin where her shop is located, told The
Local she had had enough of the negative effects the time change had on her health.
"I have high blood pressure and I can't sleep - when you sleep badly you're less able to work," the 66-year-old said.
"Mothers have difficulties with their kids, old people have difficulties with the time change, young people too."
"Some people even have to take days off sick, or are not working at 100 percent efficiency," she added. "I will no longer take part in this circus."
Stahn first tried running her shop an hour behind summer time last year and found it so beneficial that this year she has expanded her sign (which notifies customers of her adjusted hours and urges them to join her time boycott) to four times the size.
She has installed it in an illuminated box above her door.
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