Headline Roundup • November 5th, 2022
Should America Get Rid of Daylight Saving or Commit to it Year-Round?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Saturday night marks the end of daylight saving for 2022. As American clocks prepare to jump back an hour, discussions are again raging questioning the continued necessity of the time-change, and if it's time to do away with the practice altogether. A Monmouth University poll found 61% of Americans want to get rid of clock-changing, with 44% wanting year-round daylight saving and 13% wanting year-round standard time. While most Americans are tired of adjusting their clocks, there is disagreement on which time to make permanent.
Key Quotes: A writer for Fox New Opinion called for an end to daylight saving, stating the time-jump “creates havoc with airline and train schedules, confusing people, costing money, and causing accidents and delays.” The writer deemed ending daylight saving a rare opportunity for Congress to enact legislation with bipartisan support. Similar sentiment came from a piece in the Washington Post, which called for permanent standard time while warning of the potential dangers of permanent daylight saving, which a large portion of Americans support, writing “daylight saving time in winter would make every morning a dark, dreary struggle — and people’s health and moods would unravel.”
For Context: Daylight saving pushes clocks one hour forward, resulting in the sun setting one hour later. The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which would make daylight saving time permanent and do away with the biannual jump, was unanimously approved by the Senate but is stuck in the House of Representatives.
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Here comes the end of Daylight Saving for 2022, a Sunday morning most of us enjoy because we get an extra hour to sleep in.
Catching up on sleep each November, however, is the only good thing that comes with Daylight Saving or DST (it’s singular, not plural, by the way).
Springing forward and falling back creates havoc with airline and train schedules, confusing people, costing money, and causing accidents and delays.
More traffic fatalities occur every time we switch the clock, because motorists are too sleep deprived to drive...
State legislatures, sleep scientists and the public all seem to agree that the annual rite of springing forward and falling back has got to go. But the nation has not found consensus on what should replace it.
Nineteen states have passed laws or resolutions in the past five years to make daylight saving time permanent if Congress — and, in some cases, other states — permits the change. Two states, Arizona and Hawaii, have long followed permanent standard time, which the law already allows.
In standard time, noon arrives when...
Paige Vickers for The Washington Post
Earlier this year, the Senate passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. The idea of ending clock changes and sticking to one time was met with celebration — until scientists pointed out that such a change could cause a nationwide case of seasonal depression, learning loss and physical health problems.
Now the Sunshine Protection Act sits with the House. But as we prepare to change our clocks this November — and with news of Mexico mostly opting out of daylight saving time, effective this past weekend (the exceptions:...
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