Some US politicians are pushing for Daylight Saving Time to be permanent, though passage is not expected anytime soon. Explore our interactive tool to see how a change to permanent DST would ...

Politicians and professional organizations across America are pushing to axe daylight saving time (DST) — but the practice is more popular than you might think. This weekend, Australians will ...

This Act, which passed the U.S. Senate on March 15, 2022, about a year after it was introduced on March 9, 2021, would make DST, yeah you know me, permanent.

Back in March, the U.S. Senate passed a bill (known as The Sunshine Protection Act) that would make DST permanent. DST, which this year began on March 13 at 2 a.m. local time and ends on November ...

On the day when sunlight is in shortest supply, December 21, the sun rises over Dallas at 7:26 a.m. and sets at 5:25 p.m. Adopting permanent DST would shift daylight hours to between 8:26 a.m. and ...

Daylight saving time, or DST, was first implemented in the U.S. with the Standard Time Act of 1918 as a wartime policy intended to conserve energy during World War I.. After alternating between ...

Pro: Permanent DST can lower energy bills. Some studies have shown that permanent DST can help cut down on energy costs. This is partly due to the sun setting one hour later in the evenings, which ...

The push for permanent DST could lock millions of people into a system where their clock setting remains artificially ahead of the natural solar time. Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Muzhe Yang.

Permanent DST Vote Disliked By Many In AM Faces Recount. By. Cameron Coats - May 1, 2025. 0. ... The Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, which would allow states to make daylight saving time ...

Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation in 2019 that would have allowed the state to shift to permanent DST. But the Sunshine Protection Act has stalled at the federal level.