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A group of 12 bipartisan senators said on Friday they are making a new legislative effort to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-annual changing of clocks. In March 2022, the U.S ...
Passed the 117th Congress's Senate on March 15, 2022 (by unanimous consent) 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.
The Ohio Clock in the U.S. Capitol being turned forward for the country's first daylight saving time on March 31, 1918 by the Senate sergeant at arms Charles Higgins.. Most of the United States observes daylight saving time (DST), the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
In 2022, the United States Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent; [64] the bill failed in the House and expired at the end of the year. [65] The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has opposed the Sunshine Protection Act and called instead for permanent standard time, a position supported by the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a move promoted ...
When does daylight saving time end in 2023? On Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 a.m. Eastern time, residents in New Jersey and most parts of the United States will go back an hour and gain an extra hour of sleep.
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.
In 2022, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to make DST permanent in 2023. While the bill, dubbed the Sunshine Protection Act, was unanimously approved by the Senate, it stalled in the House of ...