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(We agree, the name is confusing.)Īs Joseph Stromberg outlined in an excellent 2015 Vox article, the presumed electricity conservation from the time change is unclear or nonexistent:ĭespite the fact that daylight saving time was introduced to save fuel, there isn’t strong evidence that the current system actually reduces energy use - or that making it year-round would do so, either. Hence “saving” daylight hours for the most productive time of the day. It also means that you’re less likely to sleep through daylight hours in the morning (since those are shifted an hour later too). So if the sun sets at 8 pm instead of 7 pm, we’d presumably spend less time with the lights on in our homes at night, saving electricity. The idea is that in the summer months, we shift the number of daylight hours we get into the evening.
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Why do we have daylight saving time?ĭaylight saving time in the US started as an energy conservation trick during World War I and, and it became a national standard in the 1960s. Much of Arizona currently doesn’t follow daylight saving time rules, neither does Hawaii. Marco Rubio has put forth two bills in Congress to push the approval forward, but they haven’t moved at all.īut at the very least, yesterday’s vote makes it clear more and more people are realizing that daylight saving time, as it currently stands, doesn’t make much sense. Congress would have to approve it, that has uncertain prospects too.įor instance, earlier this year, Florida approved the delightfully named Sunshine Protection Act, which seeks to permanently leave the state in daylight saving time too. Any changes would need to start with a two-thirds majority vote in the state legislature.Īnd even then, the time change wouldn’t be a given.
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The proposal simply grants the California State Legislature the power to vote to change the clocks permanently. 4 winners and 2 losers from the 2018 midterm elections