Is it spring yet?

And what's the deal with daylight savings time?

I'm Bethany Van Delft. It's Tuesday, March 22nd, and this is the 10 News.

10.9. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Did you hear? Daylight Savings Time could become permanent. On March 16th, the U.S. Senate unanimously voted to make daylight savings time year round. The good news is no more changing clocks in the spring and fall. Plus, we'll have

more evening sunshine in the winter. Yay! The bad news? Get ready for some dark winter mornings.

In the winter, the sun won't rise until after 8 a.m. even as late as 9.30 a.m. in some places.

This is an outrage. That means your winter bus ride or walk to school could possibly be hours

before the sun gets up. Overall, there's a lot of support for doing away with changing the

clocks twice a year. Health experts

have pointed out the changes disrupt our circadian rhythms, our body's natural clocks.

There's even an increase in car accidents when we spring forward and lose an hour of sleep.

But those same experts say standard time should be year-round, not daylight savings.

This isn't the first time that Congress has made daylight savings time permanent.

Back in the 1970s, Richard Nixon signed it into law, and most Americans were happy about it.

At first, after just a few months, people complained and pushed back,

so Congress reinstated four months of standard time during the winter.

You serious? This time around, the Senate didn't spend much time debating the bill before passing

it. Now it heads over to the House of Representatives

for their vote. Let's hope they spend a little more time on it. I'm thinking at least an hour.

What do you think? We want to know. Visit thetennews.com slash contact to tell us what you think

about permanent daylight savings time.

I don't know where you're listening from, but up here in these parts, after a long, cold, dark winter comes the spring.

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