Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?
Lawmakers are split as health groups back standard time and studies warn permanent daylight saving time could disrupt sleep and raise health risks.
- The House is weighing two competing bills to end the biannual clock change: the Sunshine Protection Act, which would establish permanent daylight saving time, and a July measure favoring permanent standard time.
- Only 12% of Americans support keeping twice-yearly clock shifts, according to an AP-NORC poll in October, leaving lawmakers to choose among three imperfect options: permanent daylight saving, permanent standard time, or the current system.
- Scientific groups including the American Medical Association have endorsed permanent standard time, citing research linking chronic circadian misalignment to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and mental health problems.
- Dr. Phyllis C. Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, calls permanent daylight saving time 'the worst choice of all three options' for students and early risers.
- Jamie Zeitzer, co-director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences at Stanford University, argues the real problem is rigid work and school schedules rather than the clock itself, suggesting flexible start times might resolve the underlying tension.
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Three Reasons Not to Fool With God’s Time ~ The Imaginative Conservative
We need to respect time and its Author. Indeed, one of God’s first acts in Creation was establishing the parameters of time. When Congress votes to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, we put ourselves at the center of things. The issue is time. Daylight Saving Time. Congress is again attempting to make it permanent. If made law, there will be no more falling back and springing forward on the calendar. We will forever prolong the day with an add…
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Hate time change? You’re not alone. Poll shows permanent daylight savings is top choice
There was once a time when moving clocks for the biannual time change meant literally that – physically adjusting time to “spring forward” and “fall back.” Modern technology has made that process automated but it turns out it didn’t make people like the process any more.
Latest daylight saving time poll: Here’s what people think about changing time twice a year
There was once a time when moving clocks for the biannual time change meant literally that – physically adjusting time to “spring forward” and “fall back.” Modern technology has made that process automated but it turns out it didn’t make…
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Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?
The Sunshine Protection Act, passed by the House this month, promises an easy fix to an unpopular ritual: The bill would halt the twice-yearly changing of the clocks and make daylight saving time permanent.
Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States are intensifying their mobilization in the Senate to block the passage of the Sunshine Protection Act. This bill aims to establish daylight saving time and eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes. The House of Representatives passed the measure on July 14th by a vote of 308 to 117, and it was approved by then-President Donald Trump, who considered the time change "absurd." The main objection li…
Airlines Warn That Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent Could Disrupt Air Travel
If you had the chance to stop changing your clocks twice a year, would you take it? A majority of Americans say yes. In fact, lawmakers are once again considering making Daylight Saving Time permanent. But while the proposal sounds simple enough, the airline industry says the change could create some surprisingly complicated challenges behind the scenes. According to a Gallup poll conducted last year, 54% of Americans would rather stop changing …
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