<2>Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Are There Alternatives?<3>Would you move sunrise to 9 a.m. in Detroit? Or to 4:11 a.m. in Seattle…
Though both options have problems, “There’s no law we can pass to move the sun to our will,” argues the president of the nonprofit “Save Standard Time”. The Associated Press explains why America remains stuck in that annual ritual making clocks “spring forward, fall backward…”
<3>The History of Daylight Saving Time<3>
The U.S. has tinkered with the clock intermittently since railroads standardized the time zones in 1883. So has a lot of the world. About 140 countries have had daylight saving time at some point; about half that many do now. About 1 in 10 U.S. adults favor the current system of changing the clocks, according to an AP-NORC poll conducted last year. About half oppose that system, and some 4 in 10 didn’t have an opinion.
<3>Permanent Daylight Saving Time<3>
If they had to choose, most Americans say they would prefer to make daylight saving time permanent, rather than standard time. ince 2018, 19