Are EASA serious? They are referencing wikipedia to formulate their opinion on aviation safety policy! See
Opinion 04-2012.pdf
The safety of 100s of millions of people and the operations of an entire industry are being based on wikipedia!
Zeitgeber (from German for "time giver," or "synchronizer") is any exogenous (external) cue that synchronizes an organism's endogenous time-keeping system (internal clock) to the earth's 24-hour light/dark cycle. The strongest zeitgeber, for both plants and animals, is light. Non-photic zeitgebers include temperature, social interactions, pharmacological manipulation, exercise, and eating/drinking patterns. To maintain clock-environment synchrony, zeitgebers induce changes in the concentrations of the molecular components of the clock to levels consistent with the appropriate stage in the 24-hour cycle, a process termed entrainment. [.[source: Wikipedia].]
Airline executives are probably updating duty hours as we speak on wikipedia, in the hope some EASA plod will cut and paste these into the next EASA policy document!
It's there in black and white....EASA are deriving their opinion from a wikipedia page! Instead of talking to pilots.
I guess the best way to influence EASA policy is to log onto wikipedia and start reducing the duty hours....here is a good link to start with....
Continuous duty overnight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanks for info dusk2dawn