Goodbye Daylight Saving Time… For now
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🗓️ 6 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
For many of us here in the U.S., today marks the end of Daylight Saving Time - the day when we “fall back” an hour to Standard Time. But changing the clocks is divisive - and in Congress there’s even a stalled effort to stop it.
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Earlier this year, our colleague health reporter Dan Diamond took a break from covering covid to report on something a bit sunnier: the push in Congress to stay on Daylight Saving Time forever.
We aired an episode in March about it on Post Reports, and today, we have an update about that legislative effort. We’re re-airing that original episode, along with the latest news about Daylight Saving Time - and why we may be stuck changing our clocks, at least for now.
Also check out our map on how permanent daylight saving time would change sunrise and sunset times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Martine. |
| 0:03.4 | I hope you're having a great weekend. |
| 0:05.8 | So as you may already know, today, Sunday, November 6th marks the end of Delight Saving |
| 0:11.6 | Time for most of us here in the US. |
| 0:14.0 | So that means that if you have not yet turned your clock back an hour, now is a good time |
| 0:18.4 | to do that. |
| 0:19.8 | As you probably are aware, this business of changing the time is very divisive. |
| 0:25.6 | So there are people like me who like going back to standard time in the fall, having a little |
| 0:30.4 | more sunlight when you wake up in the morning. |
| 0:32.7 | But then there are all these other people who want to keep or summer hours permanently. |
| 0:37.5 | In fact, that is what the US Senate wants. |
| 0:42.0 | Last spring, the Senate voted unanimously to get rid of the time change altogether and |
| 0:48.0 | to make it Delight Saving Time forever. |
| 0:53.2 | Today we will be holding a hearing entitled changing time. |
| 1:01.6 | We're visiting Spring Forward, Fall Backward. |
| 1:08.8 | And while there are certainly many topics that deserve our attention in this subcommittee, |
| 1:14.1 | today's topic comes just a few days before we once again go through the ritual. |
| 1:19.5 | Many of us don't understand or care for. |
| 1:23.1 | This past March, we here at Post Reports did an episode on the Delight Saving Time drama. |
| 1:29.0 | It was with our health reporter Dan Diamond. |
| 1:31.4 | Wait, so Dan, why are you the one who's covering this drama over Delight Saving Time? |
| 1:36.7 | I mean, you're a health reporter. |
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