The US has a ritual of changing the time twice a year.
The US Senate passed a bipartisan bill to move the US to permanent daylight-saving time on Tuesday, two days after most of the country began daylight-saving time.
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The legislation will go to President Joe Biden if it is passed by the House. According to the report, Buchanan was leading the effort to get the measure through the lower chamber.
The good news is that this can be passed. We don't have to do this anymore. Marco Rubio of Florida, one of the bill's sponsors, said on the Senate floor that he didn't understand why we would keep it in our laws for so long. This is an idea whose time has come.
An amendment to the bill would delay its implementation until November 2023 to give the airlines and travel industries enough time to prepare for the change.
The Florida Republican said he had not spoken to Pelosi about the legislation.
The bill just passed this afternoon and we are reviewing it closely, according to Pelosi spokesman Carlos Paz Jr.
The bill was applauded in both chambers. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana showed his approval by flashing a thumbs-up.
The US should keep changing its clocks twice a year according to a recent hearing. The legislation was applauded by the chair of the House Energy and Commerce panel.
Daylight-saving time was introduced in the US and several European countries during World War I, as a wartime energy-conservation measure.
After the US repealed national daylight saving in 1919, some states kept observing daylight-saving time, while others did not for decades, creating a confusing patchwork of time zones across the country.
Daylight-saving time began and ended at the same time each year thanks to the Uniform Time Act.
In the early 1970s, the US tried to observe permanent daylight-saving time. The experiment ended less than a year later after many safety complaints and concerns about children having to walk to school in the dark.
Daylight-saving time began at 3 a.m. since Congress last amended the Uniform Time Act. On the second Sunday in March, you have an hour of sleep for more daylight at the end of the day and then fall back to standard time at 2 a.m. On the first Sunday in November.
The energy-saving benefits of daylight-saving time are not worth the hassle of changing the clock twice a year.
Some studies have shown that the loss of an hour of sleep that comes with the beginning of daylight-saving time can have negative health effects.
Hawaii and most of Arizona don't recognize daylight-saving time because they prefer to have cooler temperatures and more shade at the end of the day.
The bill would allow those states to stay on standard time.
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