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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. In 2022, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, although several senators stated later ...
First pitched in 2021. the Sunshine Protection Act would eliminate the time change that happens twice a year in March and November, to make daylight saving time the new standard 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 ...
Daylight saving time will end for the year at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 3, when we "fall back" and gain an extra hour of sleep. Next year, it will begin again on Sunday, March 9, 2025.
The Sunshine Protection Act of 2019 was introduced in the Senate by Senator Marco Rubio (R) of Florida to make the times used for DST permanent and to abolish biannual clock change. It had bipartisan support from senators from Washington and Tennessee, but it had not received a hearing in the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
As of October 2024, the status of H.R.1279 - Sunshine Protection Act of 2023 on the website Congress.gov remains listed as “introduced” but not yet passed. It does not appear completely dead ...
What is the Sunshine Protection Act? The Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent on March 15, 2022. The bill, introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio, would eliminate the changing of ...
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.