{"id":506982,"date":"2022-11-05T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T09:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/daylight-saving-americans-want-to-stop-changing-the-clock-but-cant-agree-how\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T09:52:44","slug":"daylight-saving-americans-want-to-stop-changing-the-clock-but-cant-agree-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/daylight-saving-americans-want-to-stop-changing-the-clock-but-cant-agree-how\/","title":{"rendered":"#Daylight saving: Americans want to stop changing the clock but can\u2019t agree how"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3993bdb4430\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3993bdb4430\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/daylight-saving-americans-want-to-stop-changing-the-clock-but-cant-agree-how\/#Daylight_saving_Americans_want_to_stop_changing_the_clock_but_cant_agree_how\" >Daylight saving: Americans want to stop changing the clock but can\u2019t agree how<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Daylight_saving_Americans_want_to_stop_changing_the_clock_but_cant_agree_how\"><\/span>Daylight saving: Americans want to stop changing the clock but can\u2019t agree how<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/dome_captiol_092922gn8_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>State legislatures, sleep scientists and the public all seem to agree that the annual rite of springing forward and falling back has got to go. But the nation has not found consensus on what should replace it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen states have passed laws or resolutions in the past five years to make daylight saving time permanent if Congress \u2014 and, in some cases, other states \u2014 permits the change. Two states, Arizona and Hawaii, have long followed permanent standard time, which the law already allows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In standard time, noon arrives when the sun hangs highest in the sky. Daylight saving time shifts the clock forward, moving sunset one hour later. Currently, most of the United States operates on daylight saving time between March and November and on standard time for the rest of the year. The nation will bid goodbye to daylight saving time on Sunday, at least for now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scientists view standard time as the natural setting for the planet and the human body. Most sleep experts prefer it to daylight saving time for reasons of health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat standard time does is, it optimizes our light in the morning,\u201d said Beth Malow, a professor of neurology and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. \u201cAnd we really need light in the morning to wake us up, to get us going, to reset our whole internal clock with what goes on in the world around us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Public opinion on the competing schedules has waffled over the decades. In recent years, however, two trends have emerged: People are tired of changing their clocks, and most Americans prefer daylight saving time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/reports\/monmouthpoll_us_031522\/\">Monmouth University poll<\/a> in March found that 61 percent of respondents favored abandoning the time change. A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2022\/03\/25\/americans-want-stop-changing-the-clocks-poll\">YouGov poll<\/a> that month found 64 percent of those surveyed favoring a year-round setting. A 2021 poll by YouGov and The Economist found 63 percent support for a single setting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All three polls show the public favoring daylight saving time over standard time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe can go out after work and exercise. We can go shopping or dining at night when it\u2019s not dark,\u201d said Cathy Kipp, a Democratic state representative in Colorado, where the legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved a switch to permanent daylight saving time this year, contingent on federal approval. \u201cPeople want light after they get off of work. They don\u2019t want dark on both ends of their day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The public associates daylight saving time with daylight \u2014 and summer vacation, backyard barbecues, sunshine and warmth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the reason a lot of people like daylight saving time is that they like summer,\u201d said Jennifer Martin, president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Responding to the trend in state legislation, the Senate passed a bill in the spring that would ensconce daylight saving time as the new permanent setting. The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/623\/text\">Sunshine Protection Act of 2021<\/a> would effectively set clocks an hour forward for good in every state but two. Arizona and Hawaii would be allowed to continue following year-round standard time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bill prevailed in a process called unanimous consent, which bypassed the normal routine of testimony and debate. Some senators later quipped that its swift passage <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/paulmcleod\/daylight-saving-time-senate\">caught them off guard<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the Senate vote, the daylight saving movement hit a wall in the House. With the stakes rising, constituents and lobbyists flooded lawmakers with messages on both sides of the great time debate. Malow, the Vanderbilt sleep scientist, testified against it. Lawmakers balked. Clouds of indecision descended over the Sunshine Protection Act. After months of delay, observers expect no decisive vote anytime soon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>For now, it seems, the great resetting will continue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that the majority of Americans do not want to keep switching the clocks back and forth,\u201d said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois who chairs the House subcommittee where the bill has stalled, in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have received calls from constituents who prefer permanent standard time because they have safety concerns for children who have to wait too long in the dark during winter for the school bus, and I have heard from constituents and businesses who prefer permanent daylight saving time because they prefer longer daylight hours. While there does not seem to be a consensus yet, I am continuing to listen to my constituents and work with my colleagues to determine the best path forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One congressional aide put it more bluntly. \u201cWe know 7 in 10 Americans want it to happen,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just don\u2019t know which one to do. This is an issue where half the country\u2019s gonna be upset no matter what.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because he is working on the bill and lacks permission to discuss it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local legislatures and poll respondents seem to favor daylight saving time across much of the nation. States that have adopted daylight saving time for good \u2014 if Congress permits \u2014 include the northern border states of Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Washington, where daylight runs short in winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stakes in any clock change are higher up north, where even a one-hour shift can mean starting school or commuting to work in a \u201cBlade Runner\u201d<em> <\/em>pall of darkness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sun will rise at 8:26 a.m. on Christmas morning in Bismarck, N.D., one of the nation\u2019s northerly cities. If daylight saving time ran year-round, Christmas would dawn at 9:26.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not made to start the day in the dark,\u201d Martin said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Winter daylight runs short in Minnesota, as well. Yet, the state legislature enacted permanent daylight saving time in 2021, subject to federal approval.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sense is, there might be more people who prefer the extra hour of sunlight in the evening that daylight saving affords,\u201d said Mike Freiberg, a Democrat who sponsored the bill in the state House.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Freiberg is no daylight-saving zealot. He previously pushed for year-round standard time in Minnesota.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t have a strong opinion one way or another,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want to get rid of the clock changes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He is not alone. Jeff Bridges, a Democratic state senator in Colorado, sponsored bills to put his state on permanent standard time and daylight saving time. The daylight saving time bill survived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, I just want the madness to end,\u201d Bridges said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Year-round daylight saving time might work better in some places than others. Under the current setting, sunrise never comes much after 7 a.m. in midwinter in Schakowsky\u2019s Chicago-area district, near the eastern edge of the central time zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benton Harbor lies just 100 miles away, across the Michigan border. Yet, by the crude calculus of regional time, sunrise arrives there roughly an hour later, in the eastern time zone. Year-round daylight saving time would push sunrise as late as 9:14 a.m. in January.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot stretch the day. That is the problem,\u201d said Ali G\u00fcler, associate professor of biology at the University of Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some sleep experts, G\u00fcler included, would rather see the nation united on either year-round setting than enduring disruptive seasonal shifts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwitching is horrible,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can actually measure the devastation that it incurs every year,\u201d a toll of heart attacks and traffic accidents in the blurry days after the brutal spring back.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But G\u00fcler would strongly prefer permanent standard time. Other experts, including Martin, favor \u201cas much standard time as possible,\u201d even if that means carrying on with the semiannual changing of the clocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read a great quote somewhere,\u201d Martin said: \u201c\u2018Light in the morning is for our health. Light in the evening is for our enjoyment.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/3720176-daylight-saving-americans-want-to-stop-changing-the-clock-but-cant-agree-how\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight saving: Americans want to stop changing the clock but can\u2019t agree how State legislatures, sleep scientists and the public all seem to agree that the annual rite of springing forward and falling back has got to go. But the nation has not found consensus on what should replace it.\u00a0 Nineteen states have passed laws&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/dome_captiol_092922gn8_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134343,135114,80445,124783,135115,134614,40445,134354,135116,134345,4965,135117],"class_list":["post-506982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-campaign","tag-daylight-saving-time","tag-healthcare","tag-international","tag-jan-schakowsky","tag-judiciary","tag-media","tag-nexstar-media-wire-news","tag-standard-time","tag-state-watch","tag-technology","tag-time-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}