WASHINGTON – In the near future, you may be able to avoid changing your clocks twice a year for daylight saving time.
Sunshine Protection Act, which would permanently prolong daylight saving time (DST) from eight months to the whole year, passed the Senate overwhelmingly on Tuesday. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, and seven other members of Congress, from both parties, initially presented the measure in January 2021 and renewed it in March of this year.
That biannual process of resetting the clocks and dealing with the inconvenience that comes with it, was just completed this past weekend.” “Rubio remarked on the matter. “It’s only natural to wonder, “Why do we keep doing it?” Is there any reason for us to be doing this?'”
In 2023, the measure would make daylight saving time a permanent feature of the U.S. According to the bill’s original sponsor, Rep. Vern Buchanan of Florida, who proposed the legislation last year, he plans to write to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California calling for the bill’s prompt consideration.
Buchanan argues that making daylight saving time permanent has both health and economic advantages. There are 17 additional states, including Florida, who are considering extending Daylight Saving Time to all of the year. However, they need legislative authority to do so. Changing the clocks twice a year is an outmoded custom that must be abandoned.”
Ending the use of daylight saving time is in line with popular demand. As of October 2021, just 25% of Americans stated they preferred to move back and forth between standard and daylight saving time in an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey.