Daylight savings time

The U.S. Senate has voted unanimously to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, which could pave the way for Canadian provinces to follow suit.

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The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would keep daylight saving time in effect throughout the year.

"That’s going to be a pretty dark environment, kids waiting in the dark for bus pickups or walking," he said. And melatonin, which is key to falling asleep, is triggered after the sun sets, so the earlier that happens, the longer the runway toward a good night of shuteye. That, in turn, could affect people’s decisions about whether to pack umbrellas or how they assess the likelihood that their children's Little League games will go ahead. "We've been here before, and we know it doesn't work." So eliminating the practice of changing clocks might at least alleviate those risks. Offices of the National Weather Service across the U.S. release balloons into the atmosphere at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every day during daylight saving time and at 7 a.m. and p.m. during standard time. Watson said his ideal would be permanent standard time but that changing the clock every spring and fall would still be better than year-round daylight saving time. "Going to daylight saving time year-round is a really bad idea," said Dr. Nathaniel F. Watson, a spokesman for the sleep academy who is a neurologist at the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center. "If we do this, it's essentially dosing the entire United States with jet lag — permanent jet lag." Among the most ardent opponents of year-round daylight saving time are doctors and researchers with the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Those would be among the impacts of ditching standard time and adopting year-round daylight saving time, a change in legislation the Senate passed this week with virtually no opposition. After nearly all Americans set their clocks back on Nov. 7 to usher in standard time, the sun came up over New York City at 6:33 a.m. ET and set at 4:45 p.m. On the last day of standard time on Saturday, the sun rose and set over the city at 6:12 a.m. and 5:59 p.m., respectively. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., one of the bipartisan bill's main backers, said he would expect year-round daylight saving time to reduce crime with later hours of sunshine, decrease child obesity by encouraging kids to play later into the day and put a dent in seasonal depression rates.

North America has just taken a major, erm, spring forward toward eliminating the twice-a-year change to our clocks. The U.S. Senate passed a bill with ...

Ontario, for example, already has a law passed and ready to be implemented if New York and Quebec do the same. "[It's] one of the stupidest things we do every single year. The bill's fate lies largely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If the top lawmaker chooses to bring this legislation to a vote and it passes the House of Representatives, it would become U.S. law. Rubio closed out his speech in the Senate on Tuesday by saying: "Pardon the pun: But this is an idea whose time has come." It makes no sense." Rubio cited other benefits in proposing the measure Tuesday: he said studies have linked the clock change to fatigue, sleep loss, seasonal depression, and less exercise and more crime because of dark evenings. Daylight time was first adopted in the U.S. in a 1918 law, following Europe's lead during the First World War. U.S. government research has suggested a permanent move to daylight might produce tiny energy savings of a fraction of a percent. The bill was introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio who has been a vocal proponent of this move for a while, and who has made clear his hatred of the existing practice. 👀 WATCH: Senator Rubio speaks on the Senate floor following the unanimous passage of his Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. He grumbled a year ago that people were about to lose an hour's sleep with the clock change and ridiculed the concept. One of the two chambers of the United States Congress has passed a bill that would make permanent daylight time, which is currently in place from March through November.

But President Biden is “more of an evening person,” press secretary Jen Psaki said.

Tuesday’s move also sparked recollections of when the U.S. experimented with permanent Daylight Saving Time during the 1970s, which is largely remembered as a flop. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) office told NPR the House doesn’t have any immediate plans to take up the issue. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the lead sponsor of the “Sunshine Protection Act” bill, extolled the proposal while speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday, claiming it would have impacts far beyond eliminating slightly disrupted sleep schedules.

Yet sleep scientists argue the choice of daylight saving time over standard time—in other words, choosing the "spring forward" rather than "fall back" time— ...

In their fight to "protect sunshine," the U. S. Senate had the choice of making either standard time or daylight saving time permanent. Teenagers have a naturally later sleep cycle than children and adults, which means they should wake up later in the day to stay in sync with their body clocks. Other studies found the rate of workplace injuries and even heart attacks tends to increase shortly after the U. S. “springs forward”. Retailers also support a switch to permanent daylight saving time. Southernly Austin, Texas, gets 14 hours of daylight in summer and 10 hours in winter. Originally, daylight saving was meant to reduce energy consumption, by setting clocks forward thus extending the hours of daylight further into the evening. For example: northernly Detroit, Mich., gets over 15 hours of sunlight in the summer and only 9 hours in winter. The U. S. tried a permanent switch to daylight saving time in 1974 to save energy during the oil embargo by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. But, after complaints from parents about schools starting in the dark, and a spate of well-publicized road accidents involving children, the U.S. abandoned the practice by October 1974. The U. S. has actually tried to make daylight saving time permanent once before. However, research suggests that the changing ways we consume energy means daylight saving time no longer saves enough electricity to be meaningful. Yet sleep scientists argue the choice of daylight saving time over standard time—in other words, choosing the "spring forward" rather than "fall back" time—would leave Americans permanently out-of-sync with their natural schedule, and potentially lead to a range of health issues. On Tuesday, the U. S. Senate voted unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent from 2023—getting rid of the biannual ritual of Americans changing their clocks back or forth by an hour.

Called the Sunlight Protection Act, the bill will now go to the House, and if passed, will head to President Joe Biden's desk for approval. The federal ...

The federal legislation comes after around 30 states have passed legislation to make it daylight savings time year-round. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill in an unanimous voice vote that would make daylight savings time permanent, potentially putting an end to the twice-annual time changes. Supporters of daylight savings time credit the time change with helping to reduce crime as it increases daylight hours, making it harder for criminals to go undetected.