Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?
Lawmakers are split as health groups back standard time and studies warn permanent daylight saving time could disrupt sleep and raise health risks.
- The House is weighing two competing bills to end the biannual clock change: the Sunshine Protection Act, establishing permanent daylight saving time, and a July measure favoring permanent standard time.
- Public appetite for the status quo is low; only 12% of Americans say they want to keep springing forward and falling back, according to an AP-NORC poll in October.
- Researchers warn that permanent daylight saving time links to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and mental health issues. The American Medical Association and other scientific organizations have endorsed permanent standard time.
- Dr. Philipp Neumann, an economics researcher at Bielefeld University, warns that permanent daylight saving time would "undo all the benefits of the school start time delay." Darker mornings could harm academic performance.
- Jamie Zeitzer, co-director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences at Stanford University, suggests the problem is rigid schedules rather than the clock itself. Lawmakers face difficult trade-offs with no clear expert consensus.
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Three Reasons Not to Fool With God’s Time ~ The Imaginative Conservative
We need to respect time and its Author. Indeed, one of God’s first acts in Creation was establishing the parameters of time. When Congress votes to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, we put ourselves at the center of things. The issue is time. Daylight Saving Time. Congress is again attempting to make it permanent. If made law, there will be no more falling back and springing forward on the calendar. We will forever prolong the day with an add…
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Hate time change? You’re not alone. Poll shows permanent daylight savings is top choice
There was once a time when moving clocks for the biannual time change meant literally that – physically adjusting time to “spring forward” and “fall back.” Modern technology has made that process automated but it turns out it didn’t make people like the process any more.
Latest daylight saving time poll: Here’s what people think about changing time twice a year
There was once a time when moving clocks for the biannual time change meant literally that – physically adjusting time to “spring forward” and “fall back.” Modern technology has made that process automated but it turns out it didn’t make…
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Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?
The Sunshine Protection Act, passed by the House this month, promises an easy fix to an unpopular ritual: The bill would halt the twice-yearly changing of the clocks and make daylight saving time permanent.
Time for a clock change? Congress considers daylight saving time ... again
In the 108-year history of daylight saving time in the United States, the country has twice moved to institute it year-round: during each of the two world wars and in 1973-74. Now, after a 2022 attempt to reintroduce this policy floundered, the U.S. House of Representatives on July 14, 2026, passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would put the country permanently on daylight saving time. The...
Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States are intensifying their mobilization in the Senate to block the passage of the Sunshine Protection Act. This bill aims to establish daylight saving time and eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes. The House of Representatives passed the measure on July 14th by a vote of 308 to 117, and it was approved by then-President Donald Trump, who considered the time change "absurd." The main objection li…
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