A clock technician adjusts the hands on a large outdoor clock under construction at Electric Time Company in Medfield, Mass, last year, just days before daylight saving time was set to end.The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent across the U.S. beginning in 2023. The so-called Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 was, but would still require House approval and President Biden's signature to become law.
For those wishing for an end to annual clock shifting, this most recent push in Congress is perhaps better late than never. "We don't have to keep doing this stupidity anymore. And why we would enshrine this in our laws and keep it for so long is beyond me," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., one of the sponsors of the bill,"Hopefully, this is the year that this gets done. And pardon the pun, but this is an idea whose time has come," he added.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office tells NPR that there are no immediate plans to vote on daylight saving time, but notes the House Committee on Energy and Commerce had a hearing on itDaylight saving time currently makes up roughly eight months of the year, with the remainder counterintuitively called standard time.
Daylight saving time began as a bid to pack more hours of sunlight into the day during the summer months andInstead, health experts say switching our clocks twice a year
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