Bill Submitted In House To Make Standard Time Permanent

I don’t quite get the push to do away with the whole Standard Time/Daylight Savings Time switch. I’ve dealt with it most of my life, no big deal. A minor sleep change for a day or two and then people move on. But, I guess in the age of social media and people being Inflamed over minor things people can’t let go

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Standard time could become permanent in US under new bill, with some exceptions

A new bill introduced in Congress could drastically change how we observe the twice-a-year practice of changing the clocks, even as a move to make daylight saving time permanent gains traction.

For the last few years, there have been several attempts to make daylight saving time — the time we are currently observing — permanent. The Sunshine Protection Act passed through the Senate in 2022, but subsequent versions of the legislation haven’t been as lucky. (snip)

But a bill introduced in the House last week could take a largely different approach. The bipartisan “Sunshine for Our Kids Act of 2026” was introduced by Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) and Pat Harrigan (R-NC). It calls for permanent standard time — the time we observe from November through March — in the U.S., with some exceptions.

While health experts agree that standard time is better for our health, most efforts in Congress and throughout the U.S. have focused on making daylight saving time permanent. Nearly 20 states have passed legislation to observe daylight saving time year-round, should Congress approve it. Only Hawaii and parts of Arizona observe standard time year-round.

In Raleigh for Dec 1 on standard time sunrise is 706am, sunset 5pm. I’d rather that than sun up at 806am, sundown at 6

Winters would feel exactly as they do under permanent standard time. Days would feel “shorter,” with the sun setting earlier, but we would maintain the morning daylight hours health experts say are crucial to our well-being.

The sun would rise progressively earlier as the calendar flipped to spring and summer under year-round standard time. Summer sunsets would also happen an hour earlier than they currently do.

It would mean that sunrise would be around 5:08am on the longest day of summer and sunset 7:42pm. Hey, that’s what blackout curtains are for. Personally, I hate the whole staying light out way past 8pm thing. Let’s also not forget what happened last time they tried to make DST permanent in 1974: people hated those long dark mornings, and there were more accidents.