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Sunshine Protection Act. An Act to make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes. The Sunshine Protection Act is a proposed United States federal law that would make U.S. daylight saving time permanent, meaning the time would no longer change twice per year. [1][2] The bill has been proposed during several sessions of Congress.
The House voted 138-5 to approve HB 1442 and stay on daylight saving time moving forward. The bill was sent to the Senate but remained in a committee as the 88th legislative session adjourned on ...
Pretty soon North Texans will wind back their clocks an hour as daylight saving time ends. At 2 a.m. on Nov. 5, Texans will gain an hour of sleep as clocks fall back an hour.
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established a uniform set of rules for states opting to observe daylight saving time. [1] In the U.S., daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, with the time changes taking place at 2:00 a.m. local time. With a mnemonic word play referring to seasons, clocks ...
When does daylight saving time start? In 2024, we jumped ahead an hour on Sunday, March 10.Next year, we'll do it again on Sunday, March 9, 2025 and fall back an hour on Nov. 2, 2025.. Since 2007 ...
Previous observation of year-round daylight saving time. Permanent DST in the US was briefly enacted by president Richard Nixon in January 1974, in response to the 1973 oil crisis. [19] The new permanent DST law was retracted within the year. [1][2][42][43] Year-round daylight saving time was initially supported by 79% of the public, but that ...
The end of daylight saving time means there will be more light in the morning and it will get dark earlier in the evening. Sunrise and sunset will be about one hour earlier on Sunday, Nov. 3, than ...