Daylight saving time: Californians are voting on a plan to make daylight saving time permanent: No more turning back the clock.
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No matter your sentiment toward daylight saving time, accumulating evidence reveals that the costs of shifting to daylight saving time cut across society.
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These are healthy ways to spend your extra hour of Daylight Saving Time Come on, Daylight Saving Time is like a national holiday for sleeping in.
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ET, states that recognize daylight-saving time will "fall back" and move their clocks one hour behind to end seven months of daylight-saving time, gaining an hour of sleep.
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While states can voluntarily opt-out of recognizing daylight saving time, they must pass an act of legislation and obtain approval from the US Congress to make daylight saving time permanent.
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Personal preferences aside, the empirical evidence for the intended benefits of daylight saving time are mixed at best, whereas the costs of the switch to daylight saving time are becoming increasingly evident.
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Ending Daylight Saving Time would require congressional approval, but it's already been bolstered by several Florida Republicans in Congress who sponsored legislation last year that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide.
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Ahead, her tips for acclimating to Daylight Saving Time. 1.
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Federal law doesn't mandate that states follow daylight saving time.
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Losing an hour to Daylight Saving Time is killing me.
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Daylight Saving Time is becoming increasingly controversial across the country.
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What is daylight saving time and what is its purpose?
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You can use these sentence frames: Daylight saving time means _________.
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And a friendly reminder: Daylight saving time starts on Sunday.
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You can find out more about daylight saving time here.
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Another study suggests daylight saving time actually increases energy consumption.
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) is officially back this Sunday, March 10.
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On Sunday, March 10, at 2 am, daylight saving time begins.
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Daylight Saving Time is a cruel trick we impose on ourselves.
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The practice of Daylight Saving Time celebrates its 101st this year.
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Still, some have argued in favor of permanent daylight saving time.
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Has your child had garbage sleep since daylight saving time ended?
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It's that time again — daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m.
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Daylight saving time was introduced in the United States in 1918.
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Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time.
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Most states observe daylight saving time for eight months each year.
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But others have fought to permanently stay in daylight saving time.
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Daylight-saving time (DST) ends Sunday, November 3 at 2 a.m.
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On Sunday, March 8, at 2 am, daylight saving time begins.
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You'd be way happier if daylight saving time were year-round.
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Rubio said he thinks everyone should be on Daylight Saving Time.
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Hawaii and most of Arizona do not follow Daylight Saving Time.
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" — Carolyn Dennison, Garden Grove "I'm totally for permanent daylight saving time.
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The idea of Daylight Saving Time dates back to the 18th century and has been inconsistently observed since World War I. Ben Franklin is the first to be attributed with the idea of Daylight Saving Time.
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Daylight saving time begins this Sunday, March 11, at 2:00 a.m.
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There was that plan to put California on daylight saving time permanently.
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Daylight saving time ends this Sunday, November 3 at 2:00 a.m.
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Daylight saving time begins this Sunday, March 10, at 2:00 a.m.
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Daylight saving time ends this Sunday, November 4 at 2:00 a.m.
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Get rid of daylight saving time and that drops to 4,269 hours.
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Jimmy Fallon made the joke about daylight saving time, not Jimmy Kimmel.
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And so far, addressing daylight saving time hasn't been a federal priority.
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Florida doesn't have the authority to adopt daylight saving time year-round.
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Because of daylight saving time, players woke up around 1:30 a.m.
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And if you're wondering why daylight saving time exists, we've got answers.
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We lost an hour at 2, the end of daylight saving time.
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That year, he kept his shop on daylight saving time all winter.
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Sources: KING-5 Seattle, Patch, ABC13 Houston, Idaho State Journal, TennesseanRead more: Daylight-saving time is one of humanity's dumbest rituals, and you should be furious it still happensThe EU is getting rid of daylight saving time, and now countries can choose to stay on 'permanent' summer or winter time10 things you didn't know about Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested an idea similar to Daylight Saving Time
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Much of Arizona currently doesn't follow daylight saving time rules, neither does Hawaii.
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A measure they approved would implement a permanent year-round daylight saving time.
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Trying to adjust to Daylight Saving Time can throw off this internal response.
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Daylight saving time may be great in theory, but it's also really disorienting.
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And thus, the idea that daylight saving time could save energy was born.
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It's daylight saving time so we adjust the hour on the alarm clock.
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No, we're not talking about tax season — we're talking about daylight saving time.
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After the Games it reverted to a regime of no daylight saving time.
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The European Union has observed the practice of daylight saving time since 2001.
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And a gentle reminder to "fall back": Daylight saving time ends on Sunday.
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And many other states are pushing to drop daylight saving time all together.
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Agricultural groups were behind the effort to repeal daylight-saving time in 1919.
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Often, complaints take the form of calls to eliminate daylight saving time altogether.
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We lose an hour of sleep on Sunday thanks to daylight saving time.
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But Florida wants to move in the opposite direction: permanent daylight saving time.
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Have you heard that some places are pushing to abolish daylight saving time?
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An earlier version of this article misstated the change for daylight saving time.
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Don't forget to change your clocks for the end of daylight saving time.
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The founding father, while living in Paris, wrote that the sun was rising earlier than usual, according to Dr. David Prerau, Daylight Saving Time expert and author of Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time.
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That is if the research on daylight-saving time (DST) is to be believed.
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For most of us, daylight saving time (yep, there's no "s") equals more sunlight.
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The EU has required all member countries to observe daylight saving time since 2001.
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It is seeking to stay permanently on daylight saving time, not on standard time.
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California isn't alone, either — Alaska has a similar proposal to end daylight saving time.
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Often, these complaints take the form of calls to eliminate daylight saving time altogether.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the beginning of daylight saving time.
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What would happen to Arizona and Hawaii, which don't currently recognize Daylight Saving Time?
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New research shows Daylight Saving Time increases the risk of traffic accidents by 6%.
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It was the reason Congress used in enacting Daylight Saving Time during World War I and again after the United States joined WWII, according to author David Prerau, who wrote a book which traced the history of the shift on Daylight Saving Time.
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Apple's software has a history of bugs when clocks automatically change for daylight saving time.
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Few of us remember the first time we realized that daylight saving time was bullshit.
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American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also don't observe daylight saving time.
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For people like us, the steady lengthening of daylight saving time only worsens the problem.
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One morning, confused about daylight-saving time, I arrived for my shift an hour early.
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European Union lawmakers voted Tuesday to scrap daylight saving time starting in 85033, Reuters reported.
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The U.S. adopted daylight saving time in 1918 to help reduce the cost of energy.
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Daylight-saving time and the top 210 CNN Heroes of 2017 wrap up our coverage.
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But even now, there are those who would rather see Arizona follow daylight saving time.
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Again, that would essentially amount to those states adjusting to daylight saving time year-round.
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Daylight-saving time in the US ends on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 2 a.m.
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Thanks to Daylight Saving Time, we benefited from an extra hour of (still-limited) sleep.
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Thanks to daylight saving time, we get a dose of jet lag without going anywhere.
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Studies show that daylight saving time has some adverse effects on both health and safety.
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Daylight saving time turns 100 today, but we doubt anyone's going to throw a party.
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Most countries outside of Europe and North America don't take part in daylight saving time.
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Today, most states observe eight months of Daylight Saving Time and four months in standard.
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a system to reduce electricity usage by extending daylight hours.
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It's a breeze to set up, and it even adjusts automatically for daylight saving time.
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Jay Inslee signed into law a bill that allows the state to observe Daylight Saving Time year-round, and in California, voters approved a ballot measure last year that allows the state's legislature to make Daylight Saving Time permanent by a two-thirds vote.
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Because daylight saving time was established for historical reasons that have little bearing on modern society, and because the actual energy savings of turning the clocks forward have since been hotly contested, some will argue that we should do away with daylight saving time altogether.
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And Daylight Saving Time probably doesn't offer big reduction in energy costs, as some have claimed.
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There's also some evidence to suggest even the arguments for daylight saving time are pretty weak.
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All those west coast elites were out to make Daylight Saving Time permanent in the state.
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Correction 7:21am EST — This post previously referred to Daylight Saving Time as Daylight Savings Time.
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Last year, daylight saving time confused Apple Watches, trapping them in a crash and reboot loop.
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Daylight saving time was adopted in the Golden State after voters passed an initiative in 1949.
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First, to dispel the most common misconception: Farmers have nothing to do with daylight saving time.
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The daylight saving time change pushes them over the edge and creates a body-wide stress.
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Why does Finland think it is past time for the EU to abolish daylight saving time?
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All 13 Finnish Members of European Parliament have pledged to work to abolish daylight saving time.
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Last year, Californians voted to pass Proposition 7 to make daylight saving time permanent, KOVR reported.
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Three Florida lawmakers introduced legislation that would end the November clock change from daylight saving time.
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Here's the full history of daylight-saving time and why some warmer states don't recognize it.
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"If we are saving energy, let's go year-round with daylight-saving time," the group wrote.
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Losing an hour's sleep at the spring change to daylight saving time is at best inconvenient.
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Few traditions are more maligned than the semiannual switch between standard time and daylight saving time.
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The evidence for benefits from daylight saving time has been mixed, while the costs are evident.
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We're exploring Jupiter with a NASA spacecraft and explaining daylight-saving time with a CNN meteorologist.
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These acute effects on driving safety could be prevented by eliminating Daylight Saving Time, Vetter said.
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What are your experiences with time zones in regard to daylight saving time or anything else?
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Jeanette Nuñez (R) will introduce legislation to standardize daylight saving time for the entire calendar year.
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Shopping Guide With daylight saving time beginning this weekend, clocks will get more attention than usual.
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The switch to daylight saving time has been linked to increases in heart attacks as well.
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Efforts to kill off daylight saving time are nearly as old as the time shift itself.
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For instance, one reason Congress used in enacting daylight saving time is that it saves energy.
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But there are ways to benefit from the end of daylight saving time, Dr. Krieger said.
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Daylight saving time began in Europe during World War I as an effort to save energy.
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Daylight saving time might have a weird, misguided origin story, but that doesn't make standard time better.
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Daylight Saving Time has sprung into national headlines recently as more states consider ditching the biannual switch.
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YESTERDAY countries in the European Union gained an hour of Sunday, thanks to daylight saving time (DST).
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Ahead, the pineapples, palm fronds, and discotheque flowers we'll be painting on until daylight saving time ends.
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Like it or not, daylight saving time is coming for us (well, most of us) this weekend.
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Last year, the Florida Legislature voted to observe daylight saving time year-round, according to USA Today.
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In recent years, some 26 states were considering making daylight saving time permanent, according to USA Today.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - For most Americans, daylight saving time means only one thing: losing an hour's sleep.
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Daylight saving time kicks off Sunday, March 11, meaning the sunny days spent outside are quickly approaching.
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Last fall, the night before daylight-saving time ended, an all-user e-mail alert went out.
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The State Senate has passed a bill that would make daylight saving time the year-round standard.
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Daylight saving time has been great, though, because now we're only five hours apart instead of six.
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There are two bills in the Washington State legislature that would make daylight saving time year-round.
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Daylight saving: The E.U. moved one step closer to ending the mandatory switch to daylight saving time.
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The bill to permanently enshrine Daylight Saving Time passed through Florida's House and Senate without much opposition.
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CNN's Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta offers this insight to how people feel about Daylight Saving Time.
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But a lot of these so-called benefits of daylight saving time don't hold up under scrutiny.
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So they've approved a bill to keep Daylight Saving Time going throughout the year in their state.
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Daylight saving time is a small change, Ruuskanen said, but it affects whole nations twice a year.
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On the "keep it" side of the debate, there's the suggestion that daylight saving time keeps us safer.
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The vernal equinox is far less controversial than another marker of spring in the U.S.: daylight saving time.
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Daylight saving time might have made sense a century ago, when the nation was on a war footing.
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Now, according to the Department of Transportation, daylight saving time reduces crime, conserves energy and even saves lives.
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Japan is among a handful of major economies that does not use daylight saving time during the summer.
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A 373 Department of Energy study reported that daylight saving time reduces annual energy use by about 237%.
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Or, more specifically, time to move clocks back one hour to mark the end of daylight saving time.
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Walker said daylight-saving time, or DST, is a kind of "global experiment" we perform twice a year.
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Daylight-saving time (DST) was first implemented during World War I as a way to cut energy use.
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With everything so unsettled, Germany created Sommerzeit, "summer time," as daylight saving time is still called in Europe.
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Accordingly, we've assembled a huge collection of ridiculously easy recipes for the first day of daylight saving time.
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Many other countries are preparing to shift to daylight saving time or summer time in the coming weeks.
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Plus, daylight saving time, which begins on Sunday, is guaranteed to put everyone in the mood for spring.
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But there are obstacles: The state cannot officially end daylight saving time until next year, at the earliest.
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Currently, Daylight Saving Time begins the second Sunday in March and runs until the last Sunday in October.
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But many states would like to stay in daylight saving time year-round, which would require congressional approval.
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The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the United States.
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Unlike the definition of daylight saving time, the definition of a decade is not governed by legal guidelines.
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Read this passage from The New York Times "topic" page on Daylight Saving Time and answer the questions: Daylight saving time moves an hour of daylight from the mornings to the evenings, by shifting the clock forward by an hour from the traditional schedule during the spring, summer and early fall.
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As the U.S. prepares to "spring forward" to daylight-saving time, we're exploring the history of the time change.
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There's essentially no change in the number of traffic accidents during daylight saving time, so roads aren't any safer.
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"When we do go to daylight saving time, sleep is disrupted; it's shortened and it's less efficient," Watson said.
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And we should keep daylight saving time: a situation that leaves us with longer, safer, and more relaxing days.
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Finland's hands are tied by an EU directive from 2000, which forbids individual states from abolishing daylight saving time.
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But then there's that one day in March, the day we move from standard time to daylight saving time.
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Farmers especially hate daylight saving time, because if you think jetlagged people are trouble, try milking a jetlagged cow.
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In the wee hours of Sunday, clocks across the U.S. will "spring forward" one hour for daylight saving time.
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Rick Scott — want the country to observe daylight saving time (the clock change made in March) all year round.
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When a nationwide timeframe was first instituted in 1966, the government decided daylight saving time would last six months.
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Confusion tends to breed controversy," said Michael Downing, author of "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.
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Despite indicators that daylight saving time may be tough on retailers, the National Retail Federation is historically on board.
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What is the name of the civil time that the U.S. and Canada observe when daylight-saving time ends?
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Yes, daylight saving time had ended, we had fallen back an hour and the clocks reflected the old time.
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Japan is among a handful of major economies that does not adopt daylight saving time during its summer months.
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Depression cases at psychiatric hospitals in Denmark increased immediately after the transition from daylight saving time, the study says.
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Reminder for North Americans: Don't forget to adjust your clocks one hour ahead on Sunday for daylight saving time.
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In honor of Daylight Saving Time, which begins on the second Sunday of March, we offer this practice idea.
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ET on November 3, Americans will "fall back" by moving their clocks an hour earlier for daylight-saving time.
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Today, most of the US, with the exception of Hawaii, Arizona, and many US territories, recognizes daylight-saving time.
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The risk of having a fatal traffic accident increases in the week following the spring daylight saving time reset.
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And a reminder that clocks spring forward an hour on Sunday in the U.S., as daylight saving time begins.
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It makes sense then to consider how the shift to daylight saving time influences workers in white-collar settings.
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The end of daylight saving time was approaching — clocks are supposed to be turned back Sunday at 2 a.m.
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On this day in 1918, Congress passed the Standard Time Act that established time zones and daylight saving time.
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We've also been told that farmers love daylight saving time because it helps them get their harvests in. Nope.
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The Act established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the US. A time whose time has passed?
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This is after the Florida state Legislature voted for a similar bill to keep Daylight Saving Time all year.
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But a 2008 Department of Energy study found that daylight saving time reduces annual energy use by about 0.03%.
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" — Cory Windorff, Irvine "Ideally the whole country would adopt a uniform time plan, either daylight saving time or standard.
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For decades, the Soviet Union was on permanent daylight saving time, its clock constantly racing ahead of the sun.
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It's worth thinking about what would happen if Congress abolished daylight saving time (or kept it going all year long).
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That means Daylight Saving Time, feeling the warmth of sun for the first time in months, and — of course — basketball.
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Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock for $105 ($33 off): Are you having trouble waking up with Daylight Saving Time?
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Daylight saving time, which runs until the fall, was widely adopted during World War Two as an energy-saving measure.
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While there's nothing you can do to change daylight saving time, you can make your inside space a bit brighter.
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Some studies show an uptick of accidents, possibly because of lost sleep, on the Monday after daylight saving time begins.
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"Every daylight saving time, when you check your fire alarm batteries, check expiration dates on your meds," Ms. Butler said.
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Daylight saving time in most European countries ends early Sunday — although the E.U. is considering whether to end the practice.
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The federal government controls the nation's time zones, as well as the start and end dates of daylight saving time.
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Students, read the entire article, then tell us: — How helpful, if at all, do you think daylight saving time is?
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Last month, Finland called for daylight saving time to be scrapped after a petition against the system gathered 70,000 signatures.
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Along with my colleague, I first examined how the shift to daylight saving time affected workers in blue-collar settings.
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A 2016 study said the overall rate for stroke is 8% higher in the two days after daylight saving time.
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Utah lawmakers on Wednesday voted nearly unanimously to approve a bill to make daylight saving time permanent in the state.
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And many of the commonly offered rationales for daylight saving time (yes, it's "saving," not "savings") no longer hold true.
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A 2008 US Department of Energy study reported that daylight saving time reduces annual energy use by only about 0.03%.
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And daylight-saving time has officially ended in the U.S., but it's become more of a standard than standard time.
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CO. Utah 15 Navajo Nation Arizona N.M. Hopi Reservation 40 Flagstaff Daylight Saving Time No Daylight Saving Time 50 miles By The New York Times To understand how we got to where we are, we have to turn back time to the years after World War II, when there was no uniform national system.
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Rick Scott approved a bill making Daylight Saving Time permanent in the state, but the change has not yet become finalized.
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As of 2007, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
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If shifting the clocks forward for daylight saving time makes you uneasy, there's a good reason: It will disrupt your sleep.
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Earlier this year, Florida approved the delightfully named Sunshine Protection Act, which seeks to permanently leave Florida in daylight saving time.
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According to a 2011 study, electricity consumption grew as much as 4% after some Indiana counties began observing Daylight Saving Time.
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Also: Sunday is the start of Daylight Saving Time in the US, a stupid practice Liz feels ought to be discouraged.
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Don't forget to turn your clocks ahead this weekend, for the questionable annual tradition of daylight saving time is upon us.
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To commemorate Daylight Saving Time, Tim Seymour picked online retailer JD.com — saying it's picking up market share from its Chinese competitors.
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Vern BuchananVernon Gale BuchananMORE (R-Fla.), reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act last week, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide.
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Those who have studied the issue cautioned that the positives of permanent daylight saving time come with a number of pitfalls.
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Under federal law, states are only empowered to opt out of daylight saving time and remain on standard time year round.
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Over the past few years states including Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Alaska, Texas and Utah have pushed back against daylight saving time.
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Come Daylight Saving Time each year, people often complain about how thrown off they feel by the shift of an hour.
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If the bill is successful, this weekend's daylight saving time "spring forward" could be one of the last for California residents.
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Oh, and then another guy is bound to bring up the fact that Arizona does not participate in daylight saving time.
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Multiple studies, however, have since concluded that daylight-saving time has no or negligible benefits when it comes to energy conservation.
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Student Opinion People living in most parts of the United States experienced the start of daylight saving time on Sunday morning.
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Student Opinion On Sunday morning, did you "gain an hour" due to the end of daylight saving time for this year?
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A 2016 study found that the overall rate for stroke was 8% higher in the two days after daylight saving time.
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"There are 70 countries that practice daylight saving time, so you have millions of people suffering from sleep deprivation," Barnes said.
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During the meeting Mori, a former Japan prime minister, also proposed to introduce daylight saving time in Japan before the Olympics.
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Then, in 1918, during World War I, daylight saving time was simultaneous introduced with passage of the enacted Standard Time Act.
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The bride is also a great-great-granddaughter of Robert Garland, who was instrumental, in 1918, in establishing daylight saving time.
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For those in opposition to continuing daylight saving time, there's the fact that the original reason for instituting the practice has expired.
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Under the new law, the state legislature has the power to end Daylight Saving Time in California — with a two-thirds vote.
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Lockscreen bugs with iOS are almost as common as Daylight Saving Time (DST) bugs, which Apple has struggled with over the years.
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Daylight saving time may not be the most thrilling day on your calendar, but the practice has an interesting and controversial history.
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Risk of heart attack was also higher on the first weekday following the transition out of daylight saving time in the fall.
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Also, it's Daylight Saving Time at 2:00am on Sunday, March 13th so don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour.
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Daylight saving time begins this Sunday, but it should last in perpetuity, allowing us to live in a world of evening light.
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Although the length of Daylight Saving Time has changed three times since the 1960s, it appears the practice is here to stay.
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As NPR's Laurel Wamsley explains, while it's legal to forgo daylight saving time, it's not possible to opt out of standard time.
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We have launched a consultation on the daylight saving time clock changes to evaluate whether or not the rules should be changed.
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" The Verge's Liz Lopatto is also on team perma-DST with a less subtle message of "Daylight saving time is hot garbage.
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Some supporters suggested Chavez also wanted to take further distance from Washington, which during daylight saving time shared the same time zone.
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Daylight Saving Time ended on Sunday, and for many of us the extra hour of sleep has provided a small energy boost.
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Daylight saving time (DST) is the practice of moving clocks forward an hour in March to capture more daylight during the day.
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The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that would abolish annual time changes and make daylight saving time permanent for the state.
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But most of us really aren't that bothered by daylight saving time at all, according to a poll from Princeton Survey Research.
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And maybe most importantly, we're so hyped on cherry blossoms and daylight saving time that action-ready footwear is a functional necessity.
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Similar to the way jet lag makes you feel out of whack, daylight-saving time is like scooting one time zone over.
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With the start of daylight saving time in the United States, the São Paulo stock exchange now closes at 5:00 p.m.
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B-Society, an advocacy group for night owls, is even lobbying to end daylight saving time and adjust start times in schools.
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Many of us will be knocked off our rhythms slightly when daylight saving time ends in most of the U.S. on Sunday.
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Finally making it to daylight saving time (which starts on March 8) is cause for celebration in itself — we'll cheers to that.
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An Energy Department study from about a decade ago showed that daylight saving time cut our energy use by a whopping 0.03%.
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"Last week, Florida's legislature overwhelmingly voted for permanent Daylight Saving Time for the State of Florida," said Rubio said in a statement.
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The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established Daylight Saving Time throughout the United States and gave states the option to exempt themselves.
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We were all waiting for March for daylight saving time to start, but with March also comes something not so fun: Allergy season.
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Daylight saving time may not be the most thrilling day on your calendar, but the practice is celebrating it's 100th birthday this year.
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Americans will move their clocks ahead one hour, unless they live in Hawaii or parts of Arizona, which don't observe Daylight Saving Time.
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Proposition 7, on the state-wide California ballot, allows the State Legislature, with a two-thirds vote, to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
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At least seven U.S. states have moved to stay on daylight saving time year-round (as has the Canadian province of British Columbia).
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A national Rasmussen Reports survey released in 2014 also found that 43 percent of respondents believe there's no need for daylight saving time.
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According USA Today, 26 states are considering making daylight saving time permanent, starting with Florida, but this change would require approval by Congress.
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After World War II, it was up to a locality&aposs discretion as to whether they would observe Daylight Saving Time or not.
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As if this month's full moon wasn't spiritually fortuitous enough, it's in the sign of Taurus and it coincides with Daylight Saving time.
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Daylight saving time is an anachronism, something that serves no particular value today, much like UHF antennas, cassette tape answering machines, or typewriters.
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According USA Today, 26 states are considering making daylight saving time permanent, starting with Florida, but this change would require approval by Congress.
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But daylight saving time (DST) has serious effects on our health, and the evidence that it saves energy turns out to be slim.
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Daylight saving time is the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour during summer months so that daylight lasts longer into evening.
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States are allowed to opt out of daylight saving time, but all states are required to follow standard time from November to March.
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So, as daylight saving time ends, waving goodbye to those long days could actually help shoppers save – at the expense of retail businesses.
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The organization, which represents retailers across more than 45 countries, including the U.S., "strongly supports" daylight saving time, according to spokesperson Craig Shearman.
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Ward's study seems to refute that claim, at least for the 30 days following the transition into or out of daylight saving time.
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But it was in part connected to the discussion over the usefulness of daylight saving time, which the European Union scrapped this year.
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It might be surprising to find farmers in this category considering the common belief that they are the reason for daylight saving time.
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With daylight saving time on Sunday, the sky will steal one hour of light from your morning and tack it onto your night.
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States can opt out of daylight saving time — Arizona and Hawaii do — but states are not allowed to exempt themselves from standard time.
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Daylight saving time sprung us forward March 8 and some of us are still trying to recover from our missed hour of sleep.
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Daylight saving time will be over, and what will follow are months of dark afternoons unpunctuated by young feet racing for a ball.
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Daylight Saving Time is one of those weird quirks of the Western world -- most countries outside Europe and North America don't take part.
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But then Congress passed the Uniform Time Act , which established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the US. Here's a timeline.
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They don't conform to daylight saving time in Arizona, so it's the same time in Tucson now as it is here in California.
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Once we get past Leap Day, we're onto the month that brings daylight saving time — plus a ton of new stuff on Netflix.
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In North America, the start of daylight saving time on Sunday may have upended morning routines, with the loss of an hour overnight.
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Many Americans will lose one hour of sleep as they dial their clocks forward for the start of daylight saving time this Sunday.
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Daylight saving time in the US started as an energy conservation trick during World War I, and became a national standard in the 1960s.
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So I say, let's have Congress – which hasn't been able to agree on almost anything this year – pass a bill eliminating daylight saving time.
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With daylight saving time this past weekend and National Sleep Awareness Week starting today, retailers have yet another excuse to have a mattress sale.
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At first I'm frustrated that it's so early, but then I realize it's Daylight Saving Time, so I actually slept for nine hours. Yes!
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This week, the Florida Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act, a proposal for the state to stay in daylight saving time all year round.
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Daylight saving time in the US started as an energy conservation trick during World War I, and became a national standard in the 303s.
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For the 28 European countries who recognize daylight saving time, clocks go forward one hour in the summer, and back again in the winter.
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Daylight saving time in the US started as an energy conservation trick during World War I and became a national standard in the 1960s.
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Every night at 6:50 ET -- 7:50 during daylight saving time -- the alarm clock stuck in the Pennsylvania homeowner's living room wall rings.
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Washington's state Senate this week passed legislation that would require the state to permanently observe daylight saving time year-round, The Seattle Times reported.
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An article on Sunday about the Daylight Saving Doughnut misstated how Washington State proposes to end the time changes associated with daylight saving time.
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Two more states have taken steps to make daylight saving time permanent, with Illinois introducing a bill shortly after California advanced its own measure.
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Illinois Senate Bill 533 would make daylight saving time the year-round standard for the state beginning on March 8, 2020, according to WREX.
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" Trump tweeted about the topic on Monday, the day after clocks moved forward, saying that "making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!
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I have sleep on the mind this week — and not just because I lost an hour of it this weekend to daylight saving time.
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New England states, with their early winter sunsets, have pushed for permanent daylight saving time and even a shift ahead to Atlantic Standard Time.
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The worst part of daylight saving time is the way every clock change comes with people saying the same things over and over again.
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It's a common misconception that farmers pushed for daylight-saving time in the US to get more time to work outside in the fields.
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As the research evidence is considered, other states could end up joining Arizona and Hawaii in abstaining from the annual daylight saving time madness.
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Part of the act will extend Daylight Saving Time starting in 22, from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
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"There is a global experiment performed on 1.6 billion people, twice a year," neuroscientist Matthew Walker previously told Insider, referring to Daylight Saving Time.
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Most of us -- 55% to be exact -- aren't really bothered by daylight saving time at all, according to a poll last year from Princeton.
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It's almost spring in the United States and the sun will start to set later in the day as daylight saving time returns today.
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For instance, earlier this year, Florida approved the delightfully named Sunshine Protection Act, which seeks to permanently leave the state in daylight saving time too.
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Daylight saving time will end this Sunday at 2 A.M. The time shift today means you'll turn your clocks back and "gain" one extra hour.
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This weekend is the end of Daylight Saving Time, meaning the clocks "fall" back an hour and we supposedly gain an extra hour of sleep.
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The good news is that Daylight Saving Time only shifts time by one hour, so it shouldn't make a difference in your birth control routine.
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Researchers in Sweden reported "little evidence that the shift to or from daylight saving time had immediate effects on crash incidence" in a 2000 paper.
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California voters approved a measure allowing the state to make daylight saving time (DST) year-round, instead of only from early March to early November.
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The U.S. implemented Daylight Saving Time on March 19, 1918, with the official reason that setting clocks an hour ahead would save fuel and money.
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Thanks to the change to Daylight Saving time Sunday, a number of states even got a 25th hour with which to download the entire Internet.
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It connects to your phone and the CASIO WATCH+ app which lets you access current time, manage daylight saving time, and sync with multiple timezones.
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Downing and Prerau agreed that discussion surrounding making daylight saving time permanent essentially reignites every year with the changing of the clocks in the spring.
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Several overseas territories, including American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands also do not observe daylight saving time.
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The century-old practice of daylight saving time, however, is under assault, as studies show it may no longer fulfill its essential purpose: conserving energy.
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The change affects all those in the United States except for people in Hawaii and parts of Arizona who do not observe daylight saving time.
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During daylight saving time, the sun reaches its peak at 1 pm instead of 12 pm, and the crack of dawn comes a little later.
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Hawaii, most of Arizona, and a number of US territories do not, however, recognize daylight-saving time — largely because nighttime brings cooler, more bearable temperatures.
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The interruption can kill people: Incidents of heart attacks, strokes, and fatal car accidents all spike around the start of daylight-saving time each year.
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But it can help kids to ween them into daylight saving time two to four days ahead, springing their bedtime forward in 15 minute increments.
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In particular, my colleagues and I investigate how circadian misalignment caused by the shift to daylight saving time leads to costly work and social outcomes.
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But they approved measures requiring cage-free housing for farm animals and allowing the legislature to decide if California should adopt permanent daylight saving time.
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For the current analysis, researchers examined data from the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System for all fatal crashes in U.S. states observing daylight saving time.
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Daylight-saving time is one of humanity&aposs dumbest rituals, and you should be furious it still happens10 reasons why daylight savings is the worst
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After the bill's passage in 1918, Daylight Saving Time lasted for about a year -- until an outcry from farmers and others led to its repeal.
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Most of those favoring an immutable time said they would prefer to simply stay on daylight saving time, dispensing with the "fall back" of November.
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Read more about daylight-saving time and sleep:Why we have daylight-saving time and why 7 states have gotten rid of it or are trying toYou are probably not getting enough sleep, and it is killing youDaylight-saving time is one of humanity's dumbest rituals, and you should be furious it still happensHere's what sleeping less than 7 hours per night does to your body and brain
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Daylight 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.
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But with daylight saving time and warmer weather right around the corner, Presidents Day is a wise time to get the memory foam mattress you deserve.
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Opponents suggested staying on Daylight Saving Time would make winter mornings extra dark, which could be a safety hazard for children trying to get to school.
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Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori had previously requested Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to adopt daylight saving time in order to host events in cooler hours.
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On Sunday, November 3, at 2 am, we'll turn our clocks back one hour, heralding the end of daylight saving time for much of the country.
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Let this lift some of the Daylight Saving Time gloom: There is a teeny-weeny ray of hope that we might get a Step Brothers sequel.
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This article was originally published on October 31st, 2015, and has been updated to reflect the fact that daylight saving time is now beginning, not ending.
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While the idea of getting an extra hour of sleep is exciting, daylight saving time ending may not be the most thrilling day on your calendar.
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On Sunday, November 4, at 83.53 am, clocks will be turned back one hour, heralding the end of daylight saving time for much of the country.
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Although it is a standard practice across the U.S. and much of the world, both Arizona and Hawaii have opted out of observing Daylight Saving Time.
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He cites Halloween in 2015 as an example, which fell on a Saturday and was the end of daylight saving time, giving him an extra hour.
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Inspired by Daylight Saving Time, which requires our attention on Sunday, we looked for smart guesses about how and why we bend time twice a year.
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Prerau pointed to the Nixon administration's implementation of permanent daylight saving time during the energy crisis in 1974, which eventually wore thin on the American people.
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Efforts to kill off daylight saving time are nearly as old as the time shift itself, and even today, some are trying to get it repealed.
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Reducing energy consumption is still often cited as a chief driver of daylight saving time, but experts can't agree on whether that is actually a result.
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In 2005, Congress expanded daylight saving time, by shifting its start to the second Sunday in March and its end to the first Sunday in November.
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If the bill is passed and approved by voters, the state could join Hawaii and most of Arizona in choosing not to observe daylight saving time.
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But theres a catch; For the Florida law to go into effect, Congress would need allow states the autonomy to recognize daylight saving time year round.
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The US also implemented national daylight-saving time during World War I under President Woodrow Wilson in 1918 —but Congress later repealed the measure in 1919.
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The map above shows a breakdown of which parts of the world have gotten rid of daylight-saving time or never had it to begin with.
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Daylight Saving Time began hours ago, when nearly all of us -- in the US and around the world -- should have set our clocks ahead one hour.
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My sheets are warm, and my snooze button is so inviting — which makes the "spring forward" daylight saving time change all the more difficult for me.
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This week, we're looking at daylight saving time (not "savings," officially), why we keep building homes in wildfire-prone areas, and the status of climate lawsuits.
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But in interviews with local newspapers on Tuesday, they said they believed year-round daylight saving time would improve the economy, public safety and mental health.
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But the first plan to actually move the clock hands came from William Willett, who unsuccessfully proposed daylight saving time to the British Parliament in 1908.
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But the first idea to actually move the clock hands came from William Willett, who unsuccessfully proposed daylight saving time to the British Parliament in 1908.
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But sometime in November, right after the end of daylight saving time, as we turn the clocks back an hour, the shorter days become a challenge.
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The European Commission's poll won't necessarily dictate policy in the EU, but it will help lawmakers decide if it's time to move away from daylight saving time.
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How Jennifer's Body went from a flop in 2009 to a feminist cult classic today Daylight saving time ends Sunday: 8 things to know about "falling back"
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Washington (CNN)Oregon's governor plans to sign a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent there as part of an effort among several West Coast states.
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So if you're looking to use that extra hour of daylight saving time for sleep, or to tighten your hair color budget this year, look no further.
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Lately, a few states have looked into joining Arizona and Hawaii, but with a twist: They want daylight saving time to be in place all year long.
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And Californians are voting this year on a ballot measure that would allow the state legislature to vote on making daylight saving time permanent all year round.
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Since California voters mandated daylight saving time (DST) in 1949, considerable evidence has accumulated that shifting clocks back-and- forth twice each year has significant economic costs.
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Downing suggested that the country may eventually observe a full year of daylight saving time because federal lawmakers have steadily expanded it over the last several decades.
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Lawmakers in several states, including Tennesse, Texas, Washington, and Idaho, have introduced legislation this year to end daylight-saving time or make it permanent in their states.
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For those in the US, March's full moon also happens during Daylight Saving Time -- so don't forget to "spring forward" and set those clocks an hour ahead.
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States can choose to exempt themselves from daylight saving time — Arizona and Hawaii do — but nothing in federal law allows them to exempt themselves from standard time.
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Staying on daylight saving time could have particular benefits in New England, which, as the easternmost region of a sprawling time zone, endures very early winter sunsets.
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Turkey, on the other hand, decided in 2016 to switch to daylight saving time, arguing that summer time all year round made for better use of daylight.
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Clocks fall back an hour in the U.S. and Canada on Sunday — after having done so last week in Europe — with the end of daylight saving time.
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Here's a full Congressional Research Service report on the history of Daylight Saving Time and the surprising number of times the US government has considered the matter.
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However, if you went into the settings and changed any of the default settings, you may have to update your clock yourself once daylight saving time ends.
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Then there's sweet, pathetic Spud (Ewen Bremner), still chasing the dragon and explaining to a support group why the biggest obstacle to sobriety is daylight saving time.
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Japan is considering adopting daylight saving time for next year, so that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games can stage events during cooler hours, according to a report.
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But 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.
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Proposition 7, a statewide ballot initiative in 2018, would permanently keep California in Daylight Saving Time, meaning more light in the evenings and no falling back in November.
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Longer Days Are Safer DaysIf turning the clocks either direction is a source of undue insomnia and stress, one might argue that we simply abolish daylight saving time.
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It was the reason Congress used in enacting daylight saving time during World War I and again after the United States joined WWII, according to author David Prerau.
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Street lights can also help illuminate roads and bus stops to improve visibility, especially during Daylight Saving Time, which ends Sunday, meaning daylight will appear earlier, he said.
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If it weren't for my iPhone automatically fast-forwarding the hour, or my mother, unaware of this modern magic, texting me, I would never remember daylight saving time.
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While Britain didn't act on Willett's proposal at the time, Germany implemented daylight-saving time during World War I as a way to conserve electricity by maximizing sunlight.
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Some studies have linked the decrease in sleep associated with daylight-saving time to negative health effects, such as increases in heart attacks, car accidents, and workplace injuries.
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With daylight saving time just days away, we all have butterflies about all of the plans we're going to make when it's warmer outside and light out longer.
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Daylight saving time ends for them this weekend; as they fall back another hour, in Johor, 101 miles from the Equator, time and I will remain the same.
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Mr. Hoadley is something of a clock aficionado, and he keeps his timepieces on daylight saving time, which in winter is an hour ahead of everyone else. Why?
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Asked a different way five years earlier, they found greater support for having Daylight Saving Time all year-round, 37% said they wanted it extended, 58% did not.
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But if all is approved, Floridians -- who'll set their clocks ahead one hour this Sunday when Daylight Saving Time begins -- won't have to mess with it ever again.
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On Election Day, a majority of California voters, nearly 60 percent, voted in favor of a ballot proposal to leave the state in daylight saving time all year round.
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On Tuesday, the Golden State voted in favor of Proposition 13, which could permanently institute Daylight Saving Time in the state, should the state legislature vote to do so.
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Having more light later could benefit us in a surprising number of ways: Extending daylight saving time would also resolve another troubling consequences of changing the clock: car crashes.
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Following the conclusion of World War I, Daylight Saving Time was revoked until World War II. It was referred to as "War Time" and spanned from February until September.
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A 2016 study in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics found that daylight saving time may cause around 30 road deaths a year, which is pretty tiny, all things considered.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will not introduce daylight saving time for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo because public opinion is against the proposal, the Asahi Newspaper reported on Thursday.
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With products ranging from Apple MacBook Pro, Apple iPad Pro, Nintendo Switch, Dyson Vacuum Cleaner, and many more on sale, you'll give whole new meaning to Daylight Saving Time.
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A Department of Energy report from 2008 found that the extended daylight saving time put in place in 2005 saved about 0.5 percent in total electricity use per day.
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In a rare feat, Florida signed time zone legislation this month that would recognize daylight saving time (more sunlight in the evenings, less in the mornings) throughout the year.
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Proponents of moving the clock permanently forward – essentially, adopting daylight saving time year-round – say most people would prefer to enjoy an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.
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One of the biggest problems with daylight saving time is that for many of us with 9-to-5 jobs, our sunrises and sunsets often occur at odd times.
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Conversely, in the spring, when the transition to daylight saving time makes the evenings suddenly lighter, there is a corresponding decrease in pedestrian fatalities and injuries nationally, he said.
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Implemented first during World War One as a means of saving energy, and then revived during World War Two, daylight saving time wasn't widely adopted until the late 1960s.
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Even for those with good sleep hygiene, there is one time of year when you are likely to be short on sleep — the annual shift to daylight saving time.
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The time change affects our judgmentOur research has also revealed that the shift to daylight saving time influences our ability to perceive the moral features of a given situation.
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When daylight saving time begins and ends, it falls to Marvin Schneider, 79, New York's official clock master, to reset some of the grandest public clocks in the city.
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In November, we "fall back," and turn our clocks back an hour (or blissfully sleep through the time change thanks to modern technology) to adjust for daylight saving time.
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Clocks fall back an hour in most of the U.S. and Canada on Sunday — after having done so last week in Europe — with the end of daylight saving time.
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It cannot be set or changed for daylight saving time, nor can the battery be replaced once it dies (which CW&T estimates should be after about 10 years).
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Or, here's a timeline of Daylight Saving Time in the US put together by CNN's research library: 1784 - The idea of daylight saving is first conceived by Benjamin Franklin.
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Soon enough, the nights will be shorter, the days will be longer, and these four trends will be fueling your shopping decisions through Daylight Saving Time season and beyond.
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From politics to religion, there are deep divisions in opinion across the US. But most Americans feel strongly that Daylight Saving Time is a nuisance that should be abolished.
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According to the authors of the report, at the University of Colorado Boulder, their findings show 28 fatal accidents could be prevented annually if Daylight Saving Time were abolished.
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The line about daylight saving time giving people an extra hour to boo at a sporting event was Jimmy Fallon's, not Jimmy Kimmel's (though he had some zingers too).
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Currently, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not follow the Daylight Saving Time switch, and neither do the US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
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Research has detected an increase in vehicle accidents during the morning commute right after the shift to daylight saving time, which happened Sunday, as a result of drowsy driving.
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Yet as simple as it seems, there is still a lot of confusion, in part because some states are now hoping to extend daylight saving time hours all year long.
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"The best times to observe will be after midnight, or 1am local daylight saving time, when your location will swing around to the 'front' of Earth's orbital direction," Ahrens added.
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The EU first started investigating ending the practice of daylight saving time last year when it announced a Europe-wide poll to understand what the public thought about the rules.
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But if you just had one terrible night — because you're PMSing or daylight saving time screwed you up — then there are tactics that can help you get through the day.
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A recent study by the JPMorgan Chase Institute showed that when daylight saving time (DST) ends, there's a 3.5 percent drop in credit card spending in the following 30 days.
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Some owners of the new Apple Watch Series 4 in Australia experienced a bug that caused the watch to reboot when clocks changed for daylight saving time Sunday, 9to5Mac reported.
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That's perhaps the only bright side of daylight saving time, and since there's no reason to believe we'll ditch the practice any time soon, we might as well embrace it.
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Daylight saving time ends and clocks will "fall back" an hour this weekend, giving Americans the feeling of an extra hour in the morning, which could negatively affect their health.
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California, meanwhile, advanced its own permanent daylight saving time bill last Wednesday through the state assembly's Utilities and Energy Committee with a 85033-0 vote, according to the Desert Sun.
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His duties in the White House included making sure Trump had markers to sign autographs and ensuring the White House clocks were adjusted this past weekend for daylight saving time.
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There are studies that say moving the clock ahead one hour in the spring to start daylight saving time puts you at a higher risk for strokes and heart attacks.
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The end of daylight saving time next month will create a more dangerous evening commute as people find it harder to see on the streets, New York City officials say.
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In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which set daylight-saving time to begin on the last Sunday in April and to end on the last Sunday in October.
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States that have passed bills that would make daylight saving time last all year now need Congress to approve their exemption or amend federal law to abolish time changes entirely.
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But when she pulled into the parking lot, she realized she was an hour early — she had forgotten to set her clock back with the end of daylight saving time.
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Given that hurdle, it is perhaps not surprising that while other states have discussed making daylight saving time the permanent law of their lands, none have managed to do it.
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Even with the extra daylight, the facts don't look so goodThe American public has had a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time since it first became law in 1918.
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The root question behind a full-time switch to Daylight Saving Time like Florida wants is would you rather have a darker morning and brighter evening than you do today?
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The act established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the US. Hawaii and Arizona, however, stay with standard time, with the exception of Navajo tribal lands in Arizona.
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Sure, permanent Daylight Saving Time would suck for people who like to get up early (but let's be honest, dogs don't want to be part of your crack-of-dawn obsession).
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This is clearly stupid, and something I've personally felt keenly since at least 1994, when I wrote to my then Congressman Pete Geren and asked why he supported Daylight Saving Time.
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Author Michael Downing points out his book "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time" that farmers were the main group lobbying against the first peacetime imposition DST in 1966.
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Since the Navajo reservation extends into neighboring states that recognize daylight saving time — Utah and New Mexico — the nation decided to follow suit to keep the same time throughout its land.
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Legislators in some states have tried unsuccessfully to pass laws abandoning daylight saving time, but Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that do not reset their clocks twice a year.
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According to a report by JPMorgan Chase Institute, shoppers spend 3.5 percent less in grocery stores, gas stations and at retailers in the month following the end of daylight saving time.
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"Instead of saving fuel, daylight saving time saw more fuel being spent on air conditioning, because of the extra hour of daylight" at the end of the day, Professor Schermerhorn said.
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As Americans brace to lose an hour of sleep this weekend, marking the beginning of daylight saving time, nearly a dozen states are considering abandoning the whole clock-shifting practice altogether.
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When a train left Park Row, the terminal across from City Hall, the following afternoon, it was still twilight thanks to Daylight Saving Time, imposed for the duration of the war.
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Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, so instead of bemoaning the hour lost on sleep, we've rounded up the best stories for you to read with the extra hour of sunlight.
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But since my son's birth, nearly a decade ago now, I haven't once dreaded the end of Daylight Saving Time, that autumn date that confiscates 60 minutes of gold-light evening.
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States have the right to opt out of daylight saving time, but they don't have the right to opt out of standard time, so Florida's vote isn't binding without Congressional approval.
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Rick Scott signed a law to make Daylight Saving Time permanent in the Sunshine State, but the act has yet to be signed off by Congress -- putting Florida's switch on hold.
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The culprit — it is largely believed — is our circadian rhythm, which gets disrupted when the days get shorter and the nights get longer, beginning around the end of daylight saving time.
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Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and most of Arizona don&apost observe daylight saving time, so there&aposs no need to change the clocks in those places.
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In 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that daylight saving time actually increases residential electricity demand by about 1 percent, and between 2 percent and 4 percent in the fall.
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States and territories of the U.S. can opt to exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time as is the case with Hawaii, Arizona, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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The next major change came in 2007, when the Department of Transportation (DOT), which is surprisingly in charge of the practice, expanded daylight saving time to encompass about 65% of the year.
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According to this study, making daylight saving time permanent could dramatically reduce the number of rapes and robberies, which most often occur in the evening commuting hours between 5 and 8 pm.
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Hawaii's choice against observing daylight saving time causes less disruption than Arizona's given that it is isolated from other states and near the Equator, where the sunrises and sunsets don't vary much.
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We need to deep-six not just daylight saving time, but the whole jerry-rigged scheme of time zones that has ruled the world's clocks for the last century and a half.
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Playing at noon on the day after daylight saving time went into effect, the host Pistons scored 42 third-quarter points en route to a 1113-107 win against the Chicago Bulls.
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Under current law, clocks are moved ahead one hour on the last Sunday in March to create daylight saving time, and moved back to standard time on the last Sunday in October.
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We'll find any excuse to stay in and watch TV. Today we're picking daylight saving time — we're simply too tired from getting an hour less of sleep to move from the couch.
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While there have been other studies that looked at the effects of Daylight Saving Time on driving, none of those studies used the breadth of data that this one does, Vetter said.
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The European Union is considering ending Daylight Saving Time, and earlier this year, Florida approved its Sunshine Protection Act, which would similarly end time changes in the state — if the federal government agrees.
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In recent years, lawmakers in at least a dozen states have looked to shift their time zones or leave daylight saving time, which is part of the national Uniform Time Act of 1966.
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Last week a parliamentary committee argued that it was time for the European Union to get rid of daylight saving time, and called for the Finnish government to start actively pushing for change.
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Heads up, everyone: Daylight Saving Time is this weekend, which thankfully means sunlight will soon not be a completely distant memory by the time we pack up and leave work around 5 p.m.
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Proposition 22019 which is to be voted on next month would repeal California's Daylight Saving Time Act, thus ending the annual ritual of "springing forward" and "falling back" for nearly 40 million people.
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A similar bill passed the Washington state House last week, and California voters passed a proposition last November to opt into permanent daylight saving time with the approval of state and federal lawmakers.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori had previously requested Abe adopt daylight saving time as it would allow events scheduled for the morning, such as the marathon, to be held during cooler hours.
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After Indiana adopted daylight saving time statewide in 22013, researchers examined power usage statistics and found that electricity consumption there rose 245% overall, with a 2% to 4% increase in the fall months.
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MYTH: Farmers loved it The idea that daylight saving time was created to help farmers get their harvests in is so ingrained into the national consciousness, it's hard to believe it's not true.
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This March, the European Parliament voted to permanently end daylight saving time in the European Union effective in 2021, letting individual countries decide whether to operate on permanent "summer time" or "winter time."
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As the map also shows, some parts of the US have chosen not to observe daylight-saving time, including most of Arizona (excluding the Navajo and Hopi reservations in the northeast) and Hawaii.
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The increase averaged 9 percent in the hours before noon, which the investigators suggest may be connected to fatigue combined with the darker morning hours of the first week of daylight saving time.
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"No one wants to see a patchwork of time zones within the E.U." European countries unified arrangements for daylight saving time in 1980 to prevent differing time zones from undermining the single market.
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Daylight saving time comes to an end for most of us this weekend, bringing that twice-yearly ritual of feeling completely out of sorts the next Monday as we adjust our sleeping schedules.
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This week was devoted to the biannual ritual of adjusting the clocks in accordance with daylight saving time, moving them an hour forward in the spring and an hour back in the fall.
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The earliest measure I've found on it, a 1937 poll from Gallup, found 51% in favor of Daylight Saving time, 37% said they were not in favor of it, 13% had no opinion.
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The Monday and Tuesday after daylight saving time in the spring have also been associated with a 10% increase in heart attacks, according to a 2012 study at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
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Mori believes switching to daylight saving time before the Olympics would reduce temperatures for morning events such as the marathon and he had spoken to Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the issue.
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One morning, as I talk to my husband, Trevor, about filling in our mail-in ballots, I ask how he is going to vote on the proposition to end daylight saving time in California.
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In October 2015, the Turkish government made the last-minute decision not to observe daylight saving time; the stated reason was to allow more daylight during voting hours during the election, a week away.
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The next major change came in 2007, when the Department of Transportation (DOT), which is surprisingly in charge of the practice, expanded daylight saving time to officially encompass about eight months of the year.
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Others have argued that daylight saving time is pointless and should be abolished, but I'd like to take this opportunity to firmly disagree: Saving daylight is awesome, and we should do it all year.
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You'd expect all of these time bugs would put DST on the top of Apple's engineer tests, but perhaps it's Apple's subtle way of telling the world that Daylight Saving Time is hot garbage.
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The next major change came in 2007, when the Department of Transportation (DOT), which is surprisingly in charge of the practice, expanded daylight saving time to officially encompass about eight months of the year.
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The reason the United States and many other countries, mostly in the West, shift to daylight saving time is contentious and confusing, and some of the more popular explanations are not grounded in reality.
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A 2016 analysis in New York found that the end of daylight saving time contributed to the problem: Earlier sunsets and darkness in the fall and winter were linked to more pedestrian traffic fatalities.
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Just when you thought you couldn't be any more tired on a Monday, Daylight Saving Time comes around and catches us all by surprise — more surprising, even, than the fact that it's already March (how?).
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In the case of Proposition 7, proponents of permanent Daylight Saving Time point to a 2014 study that claims permanent DST could reduce car accidents that occur when people lose that hour in the spring.
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At The Verge, we've long thought that daylight saving time is hot garbage, and it's high time for the world to move on from an outdated practice that had a flimsy premise to begin with.
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The goal of these maps is to show how abolishing daylight saving time, extending it all year, or going with the status quo changes the amount of days we have "reasonable" sunrise and sunset times.
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You're up an hour early, your body hates you for it, and even a gallon of coffee can't get…Read more ReadThere are a lot of scientific reasons why daylight saving time doesn't make sense.
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Regardless, four states have proposed legislation to stay on daylight saving time all year: Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, and Idaho (which has tried to both abolish and permanently instate DST, with no luck either time).
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"If there is still light out, it's definitely not time to go to bed," he said, likening his 6-year-old son's experience with Daylight Saving Time to that of a dino with jet lag.
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Ms. Trottenberg said the problem was underscored last year by a rash of nine pedestrian fatalities — three of which occurred during daylight hours — in the eight days after daylight saving time ended on Nov. 1.
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Florida and California, two states, with warm weather throughout the year, have passed or considered bills to observe daylight-saving time year-round — but they would require approval from Congress to actually go into effect.
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Researchers examined data on 303,835 fatal motor vehicle accidents between 1996 and 2017 and found the risk of these events was about 6% higher in the week after the springtime shift to Daylight Saving Time.
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Thousands of Americans have signed a petition to scrap Daylight Saving Time, and some states have already dropped itDST began as an energy saving technique during World War I. In 1960, it became official nationally.
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Americans have observed Daylight Saving Time switch for a little more than 100 years, but the amount of time which they have been observing when the nation "falls back" an hour has continued to shrink.
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In the paper, published in the Perspective on Psychological Science, Barnes and his co-author, Christopher Drake of the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Hospital, suggested that daylight saving time be eliminated.
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Not all countries follow Daylight Saving Time, but you can find a list of the ones that do here, as the various time shifts may affect the time difference between you and your friend living abroad.
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Congressman Jon H. Ryan had quite the season, from a vendetta against Daylight Saving Time to a business deal of an engagement, but nothing hit him quite as hard – literally – as his low-ceilinged new office.
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Today a big reason we have daylight saving time – and one reason it lasts so long during the year – is because the barbecue industry and the golf industry lobbied Congress to keep the silly thing alive.
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If daylight saving time isn't taken into account (and you were born on or around the time the clocks changed), you could end up thinking you have a completely different ascendant sign than you actually do.
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HELSINKI/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - From the depths of its northern winter darkness, Finland called on the European Union on Friday to scrap summer — or at least the EU's twice-yearly switch of clocks to daylight saving time.
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Under federal law, states can exempt themselves from daylight saving time, but they must seek permission from the US Department of Transportation to switch time zones – a decision that has the potential to hugely disrupt commerce.
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LONDON — European Parliament members have joined the chorus of skeptics about daylight saving time who argue that the practice of springing our clocks forward and then turning them back every year does more harm than good.
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On Sunday, the nation — except for Arizona and Hawaii, which haven't adopted daylight saving time and so never sprang forward anyway — will fall back an hour, and circadian rhythms will be disrupted all across the land.
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The year was set to 00, he decided we would no longer observe daylight-saving time (there would now be World Time and Our Time), and we kids weren't allowed to speak for the foreseeable future.
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The Uniform Time Act of 1966, which established federal guidelines for clock changes, allows states to opt out of switching to daylight saving time from March to November and stay in standard (winter) time year-round.
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But some in New England are trying a different tack this time: They want, in essence, to stay on daylight saving time throughout the year, and think that a concurrent regional approach could be the key.
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For instance, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the incidence of heart attacks is significantly higher for the first three days after the transition to daylight saving time in the spring.
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In December, a psychology journal published results showing that federal judges handed out sentences that were on average 5 percent longer the day after daylight saving time began than those given out one week before or after.
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EU law has required all countries in the bloc to observe daylight saving time, moving clocks forward by an hour on the last Sunday of March and back by an hour on the final Sunday in October.
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In Los Angeles, for example, shoppers spent about 4.6 percent less on fuel, 4.8 percent less at retail stores and 5.9 percent less at grocery stores in the 30 days following the end of daylight saving time.
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MYTH: It saves energy One of the most commonly offered rationales for daylight saving time (yes, it's "saving," not "savings") is the presumption that by extending summer daylight later into the evening, Americans would use less energy.
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California Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) told The Sacramento Bee that he believes daylight saving time doesn't actually achieve its intended purpose — limiting energy use — and that the practice really isn't worth the trouble it causes.
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But the shift to a permanent daylight-saving-time plan isn't something states can decide for themselves: The measures require a green light from Congress to take effect, something both California and Florida have yet to receive.
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Daylight saving time was first introduced in Europe and in the United States in the World War I era as part of an effort to conserve energy and decrease the use of fuel for lighting and heating.
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Writing in The Conversation, she noted that Australia's eastern states will not experience a blue moon because those areas observe Daylight Saving Time, which pushes the full moon and the lunar eclipse to Thursday morning on Feb.
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"Japan happens to be the only country amongst the major developed nations that do not implement daylight saving time so we do need some kind of an occasion or opportunity to get started on this," said Mori.
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"We looked into this daylight saving time issue and found there's an increase in industrial-related accidents, heart attack rates and also other health hazards," said Democratic state Assemblymember Kansen Chu of San Jose in an interview Friday.
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Some of those same people are also pushing for later school start times, but experts argue the benefits for tired teenagers could be canceled out by permanent daylight saving time, according to correspondence in the journal Current Biology.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Enduring a deadly heatwave this summer, Japan is considering adopting daylight saving time from next year, so that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games can stage events during cooler hours, the Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported on Monday.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori had previously requested Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to adopt daylight saving time as it would allow events scheduled for the morning, such as the marathon, to be held during cooler hours.
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Leaders install a monolith, and the smallest changes require a committee decision, plus weeks of testing and debugging to make sure that fixing the daylight-saving-time problem, say, doesn't wreck some other, distant part of the system.
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Researchers from the departments of psychiatry and political science at the universities of Aarhus, Copenhagen and Stanford were well aware of the negative effects associated with daylight saving time, such as the increased heart attacks and stroke risk.
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Most of the time, your Fitbit should set the correct time automatically, meaning you don't need to do anything for it to properly track your activities — even in unusual situations like when clocks change for daylight saving time.
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Daylight saving time has also stirred debate in the United States, where joint research by Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University found that the loss of one hour of sleep during the summer led to more traffic accidents.
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She woke up an hour early because she forgot to account for daylight saving time, and told friends about a dream she had about Peter Ciaccia, the marathon's race director, who was set to retire after the race.
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"The people want it; we will do it," the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, told a German broadcaster when he heard of the record numbers of people sharing their opinions on abolishing daylight saving time.
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Members of the European Parliament "received letters from citizens saying 'we don't like it, we have medical problems,' " said Peter Liese, a German member of the Parliament who has fought for five years to abolish daylight saving time.
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Nevertheless, both the National Sleep Foundation and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine still views the end of Daylight Saving Time as an opportunity for us sleep-deprived masses to try to get our sleep schedules back on track.
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Since 2001, EU law has required all countries in the bloc to observe daylight saving time, moving clocks forward by an hour on the last Sunday of March and back by an hour on the final Sunday in October.
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By comparing shopping habits in Phoenix, which does not use daylight saving time, to shopping habits in Los Angeles, Denver and San Diego, which do, researchers found that consumers make fewer trips to stores, resulting in fewer overall purchases.
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I do admit there's an irony to writing a blog post about how much I hate talking about daylight saving time, and likely continuing an already annoying conversation about it—but I had some extra time on my hands.
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Under the draft law, each of the 28 countries in the bloc (although Britain may have left by then) will have to choose before 2021 whether it will follow daylight saving time throughout the year or maintain standard time.
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We found that the day following the shift to daylight saving time, or following a night of sleep deprivation, people were less able to discern when a situation involved issues of moral relevance than when they were well rested.
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Floridians voted this year to keep daylight saving time all year long, in a plan called the Sunshine Protection Act, to offer sleepy tourists a full year of sunrises that take place at the sort of hour vacationers approve.
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This November, in addition to the gas tax, voters will decide measures that affect issues including rent control, bonds for water projects and homeless housing, the size of cages for farm animals and the future of daylight saving time.
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McEntee's duties included making sure Trump had markers to sign autographs, delivering messages to the president at his residence and ensuring the White House clocks were adjusted this past weekend for daylight saving time, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Compelled by the augustly named federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, most Americans will leap ahead — or stumble blearily — from one configuration of the clock to another this weekend, as daylight saving time clicks in at 2 a.m. Sunday.
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But this "spring forward, fall back" business might not be a thing forever — just yesterday, Florida lawmakers introduced legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent year-round across the country, citing reasons like reduced energy usage and seasonal depression.
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A proposal approved by the state legislature earlier this week would abolish the one-hour time change from standard time to Daylight Saving Time for the state, except in the areas of Oregon that are within the Mountain Time Zone.
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The weather gets cold, sunlight teams up with daylight-saving time to collectively decide they don't fuck with us anymore, and our favorite shows take weird mid-season breaks because apparently celebrities need to enjoy the holidays, too (eye-roll).
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In fact, the general consensus is that Daylight Saving Time is better for farmers, and energy consumption, as well as being less disruptive to children who are particularly affected by the ping-ponging of the clock in the spring and fall.
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Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose the proposal to adopt daylight saving time ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, citing the time and effort to adjust computer systems as well as disruptions to public life.
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In the carpeted dressing room for the fighters underneath the stadium, the clock in each was stopped at 3 o'clock, the original time for the bout here before the end of Daylight Saving Time in the United States last weekend.
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"If you want to cut off 25 per cent of the productiveness of the American farmer, just keep this law on the books," Prerau quotes one agricultural lobby as arguing during an effort to repeal daylight saving time in 1919.
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After the national repeal of daylight-saving time in 1919, many individual states and cities continued to adjust their clocks twice a year, but at varying days and times, in what Time magazine characterized in 1963 as "a chaos of clocks."
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Here are five reasons why you should catch some zzz's: We just lost an hour of sleep If the lurching forward of the clock for Daylight Saving Time on Sunday made you noticeably more tired, you're not the only one.
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He has dozens of smaller ideas, too: free marriage counseling; more funding for autism; a ban on airlines removing passengers when they overbook flights; the return of congressional earmarks; and the extension of Daylight Saving Time to the entire year.
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"Spring forward, fall back" no more — at least in the E.U. The bloc's leaders indicated they would drop a rule requiring member states to abide by daylight saving time, leaving it to countries to decide for themselves whether to change clocks.
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But as the clocks once again were nudged ahead to daylight saving time in many parts of the nation over the weekend, foes of turning the clocks back in the first place saw a glimmer of hope in New England.
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"We would be on the same time as the rest of the Eastern time zone for eight months of the year, because they accept daylight saving time — and when they fall back in the winter, we wouldn't," Mr. Yokela said.
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The start of Daylight Saving Time (DST), when our clocks "spring forward" by one hour, is often looked upon with dread, as we clutch, Gollum-like, to that precious hour of sleep that is inevitably snatched from our grasp at 2:00 a.m.
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Even if you're not an absurd dog person like me or Jennifer, you still have to support permanent Daylight Saving Time (which, by the way, should just be called Daylight Savings Time since that's what everyone thinks it's called anyway, including Cranz). Why?
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Daylight saving time has outlived its usefulness, and the twice-yearly shift in time is a health hazard and hardship for people as well as bad for business, according to a California lawmaker who wants to put the issue before state voters.
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Many countries reverted back to standard time after the war, only to pick up daylight saving again during World War II. Daylight saving time is now used in over 70 countries worldwide, although the beginning and end dates vary from country to country.
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The Venezuelan government has gradually rearranged the nation's schedule around the power crisis — even considering a special emergency version of daylight saving time: "We are requesting international help, technical and financial aid to help revert the situation," Maduro said, according to the BBC.
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If you're particularly lucky, a different asshole will cite National Treasure, too—in the film, a secondary character knowing about Ben Franklin and daylight saving time makes it easier to decode the secret map on the back of the stolen Declaration of Independence.
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BRUSSELS — European countries that have observed daylight saving time for generations may soon put an end to it, European Union officials signaled on Friday, saying that they would drop a rule that member countries must abide by the "spring forward, fall back" ritual.
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Photo: GettyThe European Commission is giving citizens of the European Union the opportunity to cast their vote in a public poll that could lead to the elimination of the sleep-depriving practice of changing clocks twice a year for the sake of daylight saving time.
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Research published in The Review of Economics and Statistics found that when daylight saving time starts in the spring, robbery rates drop by an average of seven percent for the entire day—and 27 percent during the hour of extra sunlight during the evening.
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So let's recap: Switching between daylight saving time and standard time doesn't save energy, it decreases the amount of daylight office workers see in the winter, it possibly puts a damper on sales, it discourages kids from exercising, and it may cause some auto accidents.
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But if you have somewhere important to be on Sunday morning and don't trust your phone to wake you up in time, you might want to set a manual alarm clock as backup, since iPhones have had Daylight Saving Time bugs in years past.
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For one thing, this chilled-out energy meshes perfectly with the mood most people aim for during Daylight Saving time anyway: Savor that extra hour of sleep by splurging on a light-canceling eye mask or prepare a lazy Sunday brunch for your closest friends.
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If you live in Europe and already put a note in your calendar, make sure you got the time right as daylight saving time has yet to happen in the U.S. New York is currently 4 hours behind London, 5 hours behind Paris, etc.
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"With many referenda and proposed laws that we see, there's not a strong consideration given to what people will experience when they no longer have daylight saving in the summer," Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, told me.
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Losing an hour of daylight in the fall has been linked to an increase in depression, and losing an hour of sleep when daylight saving time resumes in spring coincides with an increase in heart attacks, car accidents and workplace injuries, the Associated Press reports.
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In order to stay safe during the festive night out, researchers at JAMA recommend what many city planners note can reduce fatalities and injuries at any time of the year — especially as the end of daylight saving time contributes to an uptick in crashes.
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TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan is considering adopting daylight saving time next year and during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to allow sporting events to be held during the cooler hours of the early morning, the Sankei newspaper reported on Monday, citing several sources.
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Renowned sleep neurologist W. Christopher Winter, president of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine and author of The Sleep Solution says that short of abolishing Daylight Saving Time, moving the Super Bowl up a day is the best thing we can do for America's sleep.
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Under the current law, which has been in place for member states for two decades, clocks are moved ahead one hour on the last Sunday in March to create daylight saving time, and then moved back to standard time on the last Sunday in October.
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Using a database of mining injuries from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, we discovered that the spring shift to daylight saving time resulted in a 6% increase in mining injuries and a 67% increase in workdays lost because of these injuries.
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A 2015 CBS News poll found that 23 percent of adults would prefer to keep daylight saving time year round, the same number would prefer to keep standard time all year, and 48 percent want to keep switching it up as we do now.
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Roper Report surveys in 1978 and 1976 found that about half of Americans thought the US should have daylight saving time all year round as a way to conserve supplies of energy (50% in 1978, 52% in 1978), with about 4 in 10 opposed.
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The researchers, based in Finland, compared the rate of stroke in more than 3,000 people hospitalized the week after a daylight saving time shift to the rate of stroke in more than 11,000 people hospitalized two weeks before or after the week of transition.
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During that time, members of the 28 European countries that recognize daylight saving time will be able to vote if they want to change the practice of turning back the clocks come winter and setting them forward to add an hour of evening sunlight in the summer.
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"Daylight Savings Time seems like a communist plot to get us all confused and tired and thinking the government wants to help us," wrote Twitter user Michael Farris Jr. Abolishing daylight saving time – or conversely, extending it year-round – would require a law passed by U.S. Congress.
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The idea for daylight-saving time is attributed to thinkers including Benjamin Franklin, scientist George Hudson, and a British man named William Willett, who published a pamphlet in 1907 titled "The Waste of Daylight," which argued for an extra 80 minutes of sunlight in the summer.
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"As Daylight Saving Time comes to an end and the darker, shorter days of winter begin, it is important to remember the impacts that this time of year can have on sleep health and the body," Mark Aloia, a psychologist specializing in sleep medicine, tells CNN.
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On March 3, the Golden Corral in Brownsville, Texas, posted a photo of a field overlaid with a diagram explaining how daylight saving time works, giving its followers a full week's warning that they would need to figure out how to set their clocks one hour ahead.
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Tomorrow, you can sleep in and have roasted feta with honey for lunch, then spend the afternoon reminding everyone that daylight saving time comes to an end in the overnight, and Sunday morning you'll be able to wake in sunlight for maybe the first time in weeks.
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Michael Downing, a Tufts professor and the author of "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time," has said the continued practice of daylight saving is largely thanks to businesses — in particular, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which supported DST whenever there's been a movement to curb it.
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"Our study suggests that sudden, even small changes in sleep could have detrimental effects," Amneet Sandhu of the University of Colorado told Reuters in 2014 after his study of Michigan hospital data showed a 25 percent jump in heart attacks on the Monday after daylight saving time began.
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Ending the practice of switching clocks would probably be a good thing: Numerous studies have shown that shifting the clock forward affects our health, with rates of heart attacks, traffic accidents, and workplace injuries all seeing an uptick in the few days following the beginning of daylight saving time.
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A 2014 survey conducted by the European Commission found most EU member states were satisfied with the time changes, but there have been vocal groups of citizens who have pushed to eliminate the practice—especially in Finland, where more than 70,000 citizens signed a petition to abolish daylight saving time.
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It has also been unable to deal with the small issues—in a recent attempt to mollify the roughly eighty per cent of Europeans who dislike daylight-saving time, the E.U. Commission proposed that each country choose its own time zone, a move that would seriously disrupt the single market.
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The revolt against falling back and springing forward is not limited to the West: A bill that would keep Florida on daylight saving time passed the state legislature and is awaiting congressional approval, and farmers in Massachusetts two years ago pushed that state to explore moving to the Atlantic time zone.
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As with most things, they're split: A CBS News poll a few years back (in February 2015) found that 23% of adults would prefer to have Daylight Saving Time year round, 23% would prefer Standard Time the full year, and 48% prefer to switch back and forth between the two.
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But more cosmopolitan and some Eastern areas, like New York City and the state of Massachusetts, decided to keep it, opening up an inconsistent approach to timekeeping until Congress split the difference in 1966 and set the rule as six months of standard time and six months of daylight saving time.
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"It's really important to get outdoors and do some activities that take advantage of what sunlight is out there," Isaacson added, especially considering that seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is more prevalent after the shift away from Daylight Saving Time as our days appear to be shorter and it becomes darker much earlier.
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In one segment, they solicit audience members' deep irritations and riff on them—daylight-saving time, mayonnaise, and boys, when I was there—and in another an audience member tells a story of regret and the ensemble acts (and raps) it out straightforwardly, and then reinvents the story counterfactually to "correct" it.
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Ending Daylight Saving Time may be linked to an uptick in violent crime, for one: According to a 2017 study published by the Journal of Experimental Criminology, the number of assaults in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia jumped an average 3 percent between 2001 and 2014 on the Monday after America rolled back its clocks.
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As Joseph Stromberg outlined in an excellent 2015 Vox article, the presumed electricity conservation from the time change is unclear or nonexistent: Despite 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.
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In the United States, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE recently said he approved of making daylight saving time permanent.
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Should the two states, as well as Oregon, approve such laws, they would then need authorization from Congress to become exempt from the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the US. If Oregon clears those hurdles, it would join Hawaii and most of Arizona, which are currently exempt from the 1966 act.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Twitter this week threw his support behind efforts to keep the United States permanently on daylight saving time.
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This matter can feel worse in the first few days after Daylight Saving Time, when a form of jet lag can set in if you already struggle with falling asleep and your body now has to readjust to nodding off at a different hour, said Dr. Meir Kryger, professor of pulmonary medicine and clinical professor of nursing at Yale School of Medicine.
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But generally speaking, when we switch over to daylight saving between March and November, "It feels like more daylight, because there's daylight in the evening when people can use it rather than in the morning when most people sleep through it and they don't see it at all," said Dr. David Prerau, author of Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is giving the nod to legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent, providing a boost to lawmakers who have pushed to make evening sunlight a year-round phenomenon.
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In fact, every time you admire an aircraft carrier, eat a meatless sausage, sit under a sun lamp, wear a Burberry trench coat, or set your clock ahead for daylight saving time, you are reaching back to commune with World War I. The dawn of chemical weapons World War I's new weapons caused previously unseen and horrific kinds of injuries, and scientists raced to develop protections against them -- or to make even more lethal versions to use against the enemy.
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