When is Daylight Savings

High Point University Poll says many people wish Daylight Saving Time would be permanent. But not all of us. And some health experts say the whole thing is ...

The annual spring forward to daylight savings time, when most American clocks will be moved forward an hour, is taking place at 2 a.m. on Sunday.

It’s past time for Congress to broaden its horizons and finally make daylight saving time permanent,” Outside the land controlled by the Navajo Nation, Arizona also keeps Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas do not implement daylight saving time. The time shift will take away an hour of sleep Sunday, but will provide later sunrises in the morning and later sunsets in the evening. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, having passed unanimously in the previous Senate but failing to clear the House. Americans remain split on whether or not to keep the twice-annual time shift. The bill was never introduced on the House floor. Markey earned the moniker “Sun King” for his successful efforts in the 1980s to add more daylight saving time to the calendar. “Over the years, I’ve fought and won to extend daylight saving time — adding two months’ worth of sun to the American people’s calendar. In the Senate, the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent was reintroduced by Sen. Among those who want to stop changing clocks, there is a split between those who would prefer permanent daylight saving time and those who would prefer permanent standard time. Among those who wanted change, 44% supported the later sunrises and sunsets provided by daylight saving, and 13% wanted the earlier sunrises and sunsets provided by standard time.

Two bills introduced in Congress this month hope to make daylight saving time, which will deprive Americans of an hour of sleep this Sunday, permanent for ...

[voted](https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/alabama-sen-tommy-tuberville-again-joins-effort-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent.html) to make daylight saving time permanent, but the bill can’t go into effect until Congress either passes legislation making daylight saving permanent for the whole country (Rubio’s bill) or allowing states to opt out of time changes without requiring congressional approval (Rogers’ bill). Arizona and Hawaii are both on standard time year round. Until 1966, when Congress standardized the time change, states and local governments could institute their own time changes whenever they wanted, making it difficult for the transportation industry to coordinate travel between states. [introduced](https://twitter.com/RepMikeRogers) by Rep. Daylight savings was introduced in the U.S. [Daylight Saving: How America’s Annual ‘Spring Forward’ Is Bad For Your Health ](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/03/10/daylight-saving-how-americas-annual-spring-forward-is-bad-for-your-health/?sh=7f29b4a455be)(Forbes) [Set Your Clocks Back Tonight—And No, Daylight Saving Time Isn’t Going Away Yet](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/11/05/set-your-clocks-back-tonight-and-no-daylight-saving-time-isnt-going-away-yet/?sh=660567424e76) (Forbes) [A Brief History of Daylight Saving Time](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2020/10/31/a-brief-history-of-daylight-saving-time/?sh=3ee819c51288) (Forbes) Mike Rogers (R-Al.) on March 8 would allow states to switch to permanent daylight saving time [without congressional approva](https://mikerogers.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1859)l, which the Uniform Time Act [requires](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2020/10/31/a-brief-history-of-daylight-saving-time/?sh=3ee819c51288). While the Uniform Time Act requires states to ask Congress to switch permanently to daylight saving time, states can change to standard time, which starts in November when clocks fall back one hour, without congressional permission. Other states that have [proposed](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-03-05/utah-maryland-join-states-against-daylight-saving-time) bills making daylight saving time permanent include [Arkansas](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2019/03/14/daylight-saving-time-arkansas-house-approves-new-resolution/3154238002/), [Arizona](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/01/08/arizona-daylight-saving-time-bill/21481633/), [California](https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2018/06/16/bill-could-shut-down-daylight-saving-time-california/704299002/), [Colorado](https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-legislature-seeks-to-eliminate-time-changes-by-implementing-year-round-daylight-saving-time/73-ad522acf-795d-4887-931d-c37d362dad86), [Delaware](https://www.inquirer.com/science/daylight-saving-time-delaware-new-jersey-pennsylvania-maryland-atlantic-time-20190417.html), [Florida](https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2018/01/28/lawmakers-want-one-florida-time-zone-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/1072945001/), [Illinois](https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-senate-passes-bill-to-end-clock-change-during-daylight-saving-time/), [Louisiana](https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/louisiana-all-year-dst.html), [Maine](https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/daylight-saving-time-permanent-proposal-50-states/507-e71c6a97-8f4c-4963-bde7-2d37f06efa8c#:~:text=Under%20federal%20law%2C%20states%20are,with%20the%20Sunshine%20Protection%20Act.), [New Jersey](https://whyy.org/articles/fall-back-no-more-n-j-bill-seeks-to-keep-state-on-permanent-daylight-saving-time/), [Oregon](https://kval.com/news/local/didnt-oregon-pass-a-law-about-daylight-saving-time-you-still-need-to-fall-back-sunday), [South Carolina](https://wpde.com/news/local/no-more-daylight-saving-time-prefiled-south-carolina-bill-to-end-daylight-saving-time), [Tennessee](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/23/tennessee-daylight-savings-time-bill-2019/3547588002/), Utah and [Washington](https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/government-and-politics/2019-03-20/sen-patty-murray-says-shell-push-for-daylight-saving-time-year-round). during World War I as a way to increase daylight during working hours and save money on energy used to illuminate evening hours. [introduced](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/582?s=1&r=2&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22daylight+saving%22%5D%7D) a Senate bill on March 1 that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide and eliminate the November time change. [Sunshine Protection Act](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/11/05/set-your-clocks-back-tonight-and-no-daylight-saving-time-isnt-going-away-yet/?sh=660567424e76), in 2021 that passed in the Senate last March before dying in the House in December.

Changing the clocks is bad for your health and bad for the economy. The US and Europe are trying to stop the seasonal switches, but with little success.

The research found a 0.9 percent increase in daily credit card spending per capita in Los Angeles in March after clocks jumped forward relative to Phoenix, and a 3.5 percent decrease in November once they fell back. “Americans are less willing to go out and shop in the dark,” says Calandrillo. But it was not taken up in the US House of Representatives, which would also need to pass the bill before sending it to the president’s desk. The European Parliament voted in 2019 to stop changing clocks, but it didn’t get the approval it needed from the European Union’s other legislative body, the European Council. Much of the world has avoided or abandoned the practice, but in the US and Europe, lawmakers have been unable to stop the clocks from changing. Nations started switching between standard time in winter and daylight saving time in summer during the First World War, as they sought to cut energy costs—an extra hour of daylight in the evening meant less time with the lights on. That’s why Steve Calandrillo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law who has studied the economics of daylight saving time, says he’s an advocate for permanently adopting it. [road safety](https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01615-3?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982222016153%3Fshowall%3Dtrue), and [health](https://openheart.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000019). On March 12, most of the US and Canada will wake up to an hour stolen. Progress has been slow—and that’s bad for a number of reasons. A year ago, the US Senate passed a bill to move the clocks forward an hour permanently. Research has shown how moving the clocks forward and back, even by just one hour, negatively affects the economy,

(NEXSTAR) – The start of daylight saving time is upon us again, meaning almost all Americans – Hawaii and parts of Arizona don't observe DST – are setting ...

[In Texas](https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HJR100), lawmakers are hoping to pass a resolution that would put the choice between permanent standard time or permanent daylight saving time up to voters in November. Lawmakers in Nebraska have introduced a similar bill with an additional caveat: a third neighboring state (Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri, or Kansas) needs to pass a similar law, according to the [Nebraska Examiner](https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/02/08/year-round-daylight-saving-time-has-a-chance-this-year-in-nebraska/). will continue to observe daylight saving time and the twice-a-year tradition of changing the clocks. [Alabama](https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/why-is-alabama-springing-forward-one-hour-for-daylight-saving-time/), [Colorado](https://kdvr.com/news/local/permanent-daylight-saving-time-possible/), [Florida](https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/daylight-saving-time-2022-will-florida-ever-get-to-permanently-spring-ahead/), [Georgia](https://www.wjbf.com/news/georgia-news/what-passed-and-failed-in-2021-georgia-general-assembly/), [Louisiana](https://www.klfy.com/news/gov-edwards-signs-daylight-saving-time-bill/), [Ohio](https://fox8.com/news/ohio-lawmakers-join-other-states-in-efforts-to-stop-the-clock-on-daylight-saving-time/), [Oregon](https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-votes-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/), [South Carolina](https://www.wbtw.com/news/state-regional-news/why-we-fall-back-after-south-carolina-lawmakers-made-daylight-saving-time-permanent/), [Tennessee](https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/daylight-saving-time-debate-lingers-in-congress/), and [Utah](https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/daylight-saving-time-ends-soon-heres-why-utah-cant-stay-on-it-year-round/). So far, the bill has received [bipartisan support](https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/3880009-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-reintroduced-in-congress/) in the Senate and has been referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. [Nexstar Media Wire News](https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/) [Nexstar Media Wire News](https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/) [Nexstar Media Wire News](https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/) [Nexstar Media Wire News](https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/) [See All](https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/) [passed with unanimous support in the Senate](https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-passes-senate/), but it wasn’t as well-received in the House. But these states can’t make the change without congressional approval, or their neighboring states enacting similar legislation. secretary of transportation “supporting its contention the requested change would serve the convenience of commerce.” (NEXSTAR) – The start of daylight saving time is upon us again, meaning almost all Americans – Hawaii and parts of Arizona don’t observe DST – are setting their clocks ahead one hour. Federal law says there are only two ways the U.S. Massachusetts commissioned studies on the matter, according to the [NCSL](https://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/daylight-savings-time-state-legislation.aspx).

WASHINGTON- Sunday's return to Daylight Savings Time (DST) will result in many people oversleeping an hour after forgetting to move their clocks forward ...

One clear benefit, according to area first responders, to keeping the twice-per-year time change is the important reminder it serves for individuals to check their smoke alarms. State legislators in New York are looking to do away with the ritual of time changes as well. Supporters of a permanent national shift to DST claim longer daylight hours promote safety on the roadways and for pedestrians. “This ritual of changing time twice a year is stupid,” Rubio said, adding “Locking the clock has overwhelming bipartisan and popular support. WW II revived the DST to once again preserve coal and it has remained in place ever since. Originally proposed in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of reducing the use of candles, the United States adopted the practice in 1918 under the Standard Time Act of 1918, to conserve coal resources during the war.

It's that time of the year where clocks jump ahead. Daylight Savings Time begins at 2am on Sunday, with clocks jumping ahead one hour, so people will need ...

NEW YORK — As New Yorkers prepare to “spring” their clocks forward an hour this weekend as daylight saving time begins, state Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-C-Rome, ...

The change would be contingent upon a compact with neighboring states and the federal government passing legislation allowing states to adopt daylight saving time as the permanent standard measure of time. Griffo and Assemblyman Santabarbara have introduced legislation that establishes daylight saving time as the year-round standard time of New York State and New York City. As a result of the enactment of the federal Uniform Time Act in 1966, most Americans advance their clocks by an hour in the warmer months so that it gets dark later and move their clocks back an hour in the fall.

Set your clock ahead an hour before bedtime tonight. The bi-annual disruption of Americans' circadian rhythms — a medical term referring to the body's inner ...

In 2007, the current system was put in place, moving the clock ahead an hour on the second Sunday in March and back an hour on the first Sunday in November. “Americans want more sunshine in the chilly, winter months, and Congress can deliver that to them,” the senator told the Washington Post. “In the United States, daylight saving time was first used in 1918 when a bill introduced the idea of a seasonal time shift. But the plan did little to save energy and in October 1974, the U.S. Last year the Senate passed “The Sunshine Protection Act” by a surprisingly unanimous vote, to stop tinkering with clocks. It was doomed, however, in the House of Representatives. Stephenson reports, with Congress ordering “a year-round period of daylight saving time to save energy. According to writer Gary Stephenson, the idea of daylight savings time, which had been around for a century or more, was first put into actual practice in World War I. The first occurrence of circadian rhythm disorder came about in the 17th century, when railroads came on the scene. “Committing to standard time has health benefits and allows us to end the bi-annual tug of war between our biological and alarm clocks,” said Alexander Ding, an AMA trustee. But it’s not just the little ones and those who care for them who are negatively affected. According to a poll taken by BabyCenter, 55% of parents want daylight savings time to remain all year long, and only 31% want to keep the status quo.