'Bill to make daylight saving time permanent' unanimously passed the US Senate



On March 13, 2022, except for some areas such as Hawaii, the United States shifted to ' daylight saving time', which is one hour ahead of normal time. This daylight saving time will return to winter time on November 6, 2022, but from 2023, the US Senate has proposed a 'Sunshine Protection Act' to prevent daylight saving time from returning to winter time forever. We got a unanimous vote. If the bill is passed by the House of Representatives and signed by the President, the 'seasonal time-changing habit' will be abolished in the United States from 2023.

HR69 --117th Congress (2021-2022): Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/69



Senate passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
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In the United States, Canada, and Australia, daylight saving time is longer in the summer, so daylight saving time is adopted from early spring to late autumn in order to make more effective use of the time zone when the sun is shining by advancing the standard time by one hour. .. When shifting to daylight saving time, each household must make adjustments to shift their clocks by one hour.

However, it has been pointed out that the clock must be adjusted twice a year, which incurs extra costs in terms of system management and has a large effect on sleep time, which also has an adverse effect on health. In Japan, there were voices calling for the introduction of the daylight saving time system in the wake of the Tokyo Olympics, but many voices calling for its abolition were abandoned . Also, in the EU, discussions have been postponed due to the influence of the new coronavirus, but the abolition of daylight saving time has already been considered from around 2018.

EU turns to abolish daylight saving time, there are concerns about confusion with changes in 2019 at the earliest-GIGAZINE



Even in the United States, there are many voices arguing that 'daylight saving time should be stopped', and according to a survey conducted by online community site YouGov America in November 2021, nearly two-thirds of Americans have 'daylight saving time and winter time'. I don't like to adjust the clock in. ', And I found that the younger generation under the age of 30 was particularly dissatisfied.

This sunshine protection bill was submitted to Congress in 2018 and resubmitted in January 2021, with the Standard Time Act enacted in 1918 and the Uniform Time Act enacted in 1966. It abolishes the arrangement of daylight saving time and winter time stipulated by the Time Law) . Once the bill goes into force, American standard time will not change forever after the transition to daylight savings time in the spring of 2023.



'I don't need a dark winter afternoon anymore. I'm tired of sleep deprivation every spring. Most productive,' said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, who unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act. I would like to get more sunlight during high activity hours. '

This is not the first time that a bill to make daylight saving time permanent has been discussed in the United States, and standard time has been fixed to daylight saving time throughout the year from 1974 to 1975. However, in January 1974, when a 6-year-old girl was hit by a car while commuting to school, a voice erupted saying, 'It is dark in the early winter morning, so it is dangerous for children who are commuting to school.' And, with the resignation of the Nixon administration in the Watergate scandal in August 1974, the permanentization of summer time was cancelled.

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