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Preparing your sleep schedule for daylight saving time
Standard time is coming to an end this weekend. Starting Monday, we spring forward into daylight saving time.
As the end of daylight saving time approaches on Sunday, with the clocks rolling back one hour, a lot of people may be wondering where the Sunshine Protection Act stands.
Daylight saving time begins in March when the clocks roll forward one hour in 48 states. In November, daylight saving time ends, and the clocks roll back by one hour, putting the country in standard time.
First pitched in 2021 by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the Sunshine Protection Act would eliminate the time change that happens twice a year in March and November, to make daylight saving time the new standard time for any states that participate in the time change.
The proposition to permanently leave the clocks in daylight saving time has been pitched to Congress a few times in the last three years, but none of the bills have ever made it off the Congress floor and onto the president's desk.
Permanent daylight saving time would push winter sunrises to nearly 9 a.m. in some cities like Seattle.
Jan. 1 sunrise times will be one hour later under permanent daylight saving time than they are currently under standard time. (FOX Weather)
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