Photo Credit: Pixabay / obpia30

It’s that time of year again in the United States. On Saturday night, Americans will “fall back” one hour, turning back the clock at 2 am Sunday to 1 am.

Daylight saving time began during World Wars I and II as a means of saving energy and resources in service of the war effort.

Advertisement




The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 introduced earlier this year seeks to change the current standard and to make daylight saving time the permanent year-round standard, time. However, states with areas exempt from daylight savings time may choose the standard time for those areas.

“Studies show that it is the transition out of Daylight Saving Time, which leads to an increase in car accidents, causes more on-site work incidents, and disrupts the health of all who are subject to this time change,” states a similar bill in the New York State Legislature.

That bill would make the change contingent on a repeal of the 1966 federal law, and would only take effect if neighboring states went year-round, too, but has yet to make it out of committee, according to the Observer-Dispatch.


Share this article on WhatsApp:
Advertisement

SHARE
Previous articlePA Terrorist Targets IDF Outpost with Gunfire
Next articleIran Announces Increase in Stockpile of 60% Enriched Uranium, to 25 kg
Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.