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Mar 8, 2024 · At least 29 states have considered legislation related to daylight saving time, including making it permanent year-round. But those laws won't take effect until Congress makes it legal.
- Emily Olson
Mar 14, 2021 · Daylight saving time began on Sunday March 14, and is scheduled to end in November absent changes to federal law. But the law could be changed. We only spend a third of the year in standard time ...
Mar 11, 2022 · One 2019 study, which looked at how light affects people at opposite ends of a single time zone, found that an extra hour of natural light in the evening led to an average of 19 fewer minutes of ...
- Amelia Nierenberg
- When and Why Was Daylight Saving Time created?
- How Did That Go?
- What Would Winter Mornings Be Like If This Bill Passes?
- What’s Wrong with Dark mornings?
- But We’Ll Have More Light at Night? Isn’T That A Good Thing?
- You Say We Should Do Away with The Time Change. Why?
- What Does The Research Say? Is Permanent DST Or St Healthier?
- What’s Your Takeaway For Lawmakers Mulling This Decision?
It was first introduced on a large scale by the Germans during World War I to save energy. The idea was that extending evening sunlight would mean people wouldn’t use as much energy. The U.S. followed suit and has since gone back and forth between having it and not having it, including during the energy crisis of 1974, when the U.S. decided to try ...
At first, 79% of the public was in favor of the change. However, by February, after the first winter of exposure to dark mornings, support dropped to 42% and the law was repealed after only 10 months. It didn’t save much energy, and research showed fuel usage actually increased slightly.
As a population, we’ll be waking up more often in the darkness. For instance, this clock change would cause Colorado to lose more than two months of having sunlight in the morning before 8 a.m. and 98 days of having sunlight in the morning before 7 a.m., compared to if we were to adopt permanent standard time (ST).
The winter sun that is often there to help melt the ice on our roads for the morning commute won’t be there, and more people will be driving to work or to the ski resorts in the dark, increasing risk of accidents. More Colorado children will be waiting for the morning bus in the dark. And any benefits to our children that have been gained by some s...
Actually no. When we get exposed to light at night, whether it be more sunlight or lights inside our house or on our devices, that sends a signal to our circadian clock that we should go to bed later and wake up later. Later sleep timing is associated with more substance use and physical and mental health problems, including obesity, depression and...
There is no question the change itself is associated with problems. In the days after the “spring ahead” we just went through, we get less sleep and wake up at a time when our brains are telling us we should still be sleeping. There are lots of associated risks, including an increase in fatal motor vehicle accidentsand in heart attacks and strokes.
We don’t have any studies that have, say, compared 10 years of one to 10 years of the other. But we do have studies where they compare people who live on the western edge of a time zone to people living on the eastern edge of the adjacent time zone. They are essentially in the same region, with the sun coming up and going down for them about the sa...
Major international scientific societies have put out expert opinion papers that are unanimous in that we should adopt permanent standard time, and Arizona and Hawaii have used permanent standard time since the 1960s. We should follow suit.
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Mar 17, 2022 · This change would give most people an extra hour of evening light at the cost of an extra hour of morning darkness. A better name than daylight saving time might be daylight shifting time.
Mar 8, 2024 · The trump card of standard time proponents is that we tried permanent daylight saving time once before — in 1974. After it went into effect, only 42 percent of Americans favored the change.
Nov 1, 2023 · November 1, 2023 3:20 PM EDT. C ome Sunday, Nov. 5, many Americans may lament the loss of an hour of sunlight in the evenings as clocks are set back an hour, and Daylight Saving Time ends. The ...
