3/16/22 - Senate Approves Bill To Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 7:37 AM

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The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a measure that would make daylight saving time permanent next year.

-The Sunshine Protection Act, would ensure Americans would no longer have to change their clocks twice a year.

“No more switching clocks, more daylight hours to spend outside after school and after work, and more smiles — that is what we get with permanent Daylight Saving Time,” Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the original cosponsor of the legislation, said in a statement.

Nearly a dozen states across the U.S. have already standardized daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time is defined as a period between spring and fall when clocks in most parts of the country are set one hour ahead of standard time. Americans last changed their clocks on Sunday. Standard time lasts for roughly four months in most of the country.

Members of Congress have long been interested in the potential benefits and costs of daylight saving time since it was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942. The proposal will now go to the House, where the Energy and Commerce Committee had a hearing to discuss possible legislation last week.

 

 

 

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