Mar 15, 2022 · By Teaganne Finn. WASHINGTON — The Senate approved legislation Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent in the U.S. starting next year. The bill, called The Sunshine Protection Act ...
Mar 16, 2022 · WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a move ...
Mar 9, 2021 · Passed Senate (03/15/2022) Sunshine Protection Act of 2021. This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time, effective November 5, 2023. States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.
- Senate-Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Daylight Saving Time Started to Conserve Energy. It Didn’T work.
- Extending Daylight Saving Time Would Mean Later Sunsets Year-Round
- The Case For Consistency
Daylight saving time in the US started as an energy conservation trick during World War I and became a national standardin the 1960s. The idea is that in the summer months, we shift the number of daylight hours we get into the evening. So if the sun sets at 8 pm instead of 7 pm, we’d presumably spend less time with the lights on in our homes at nig...
So if the House and the president actually go through with this, what will change? Blogger and cartographer Andy Woodruff decided to visualize thiswith a great series of maps. The goal of these maps is to show how abolishing daylight saving time, extending it all year, or going with the status quo changes the number of days we have “reasonable” sun...
Individuals might differ on which of the above maps they prefer. But it matters less whether we keep daylight saving time year-round or abolish it completely; the real benefits come from not flip-flopping back-and-forth twice a year. It’s more this: Sleep scientists continually advocate that, for optimal health, people should stick to the same slee...
- Brian Resnick
Mar 6, 2023 · Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio has reintroduced the bill to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent in Congress. The Sunshine Protection Act of 2023 proposes that after springing forward one hour on March 12, the clocks will not be set back in November but remain permanently on DST.
May 9, 2023 · The Oklahoman newspaper reported results of a March 2022 Amber Integrated poll stating that 47% of likely Oklahoma voters agreed with moving to permanent daylight saving time, with 24% favoring “no daylight saving time” and another 24% saying they’re OK with the current time-change system.