PERMANENT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
https://localsyr.com/how-permanent-daylight-saving-would-affect-new-york
How would NY days change with permanent daylight saving time?
“…New York summers would look exactly as they do now if daylight saving time becomes permanent. However, winters would be greatly affected by the change. According to data from timeanddate.com, the latest sunrise in Syracuse would be 8:36 a.m. in early January if daylight saving time were permanent. With how things currently stand, the latest sunrise after DST ends is 7:36 a.m. The earliest sunset would be 5:29 p.m. So, no more midnight-feeling drives home from work. At least you’ll get to say goodnight to the sun before it goes away on a cold winter evening. New York has yet to pass Senate Bill 3380, which would give the full go-ahead for permanent daylight saving time if it gets signed into law federally. The bill currently sits in the Senate committee.”
WHAT TIME SHOULD IT BE?
https://accuweather.com/what-permanent-daylight-saving-time-means
What permanent daylight saving time means
by Emilee Speck / Jul 14, 2026
“A long-running push to end the twice-a-year clock change took a step forward in Congress this week, as the House advanced the Sunshine Protection Act, sending the bill to the Senate. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., would make daylight saving time permanent across most of the United States, leading to later sunrises and sunsets throughout the year. The House Rules Committee approved the rule to advance the bill in a vote on Monday, followed by the full House approving the bill on Tuesday. The measure would still need approval from the Senate before heading to the president’s desk.
Daylight saving time is currently observed by most of the U.S. from March into November. In 2026, clocks sprang forward on March 8. Clocks are scheduled to fall back on Nov. 1, when most of the country returns to standard time. Multiple versions of the Sunshine Protection Act have been introduced by lawmakers since 2018, but none have been signed into law. If the Sunshine Protection Act became law and a state chose to remain on daylight saving time, winter mornings would be darker, with sunrises pushed an hour later. Meanwhile, another bill introduced in July takes a different approach to the time change. The Sunshine for Our Kids Act of 2026, introduced by Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., and Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., would make standard time permanent across the U.S. by default, while allowing states to choose daylight saving time if they pass their own laws.
That would mark a different approach from the Sunshine Protection Act, a separate proposal that would make daylight saving time permanent. The Sunshine for Our Kids Act would repeal the daylight saving time section of the Uniform Time Act of 1966. If enacted, the change would take effect on the first Sunday in November after the bill becomes law, according to the bill text. Under the proposal, states in a single time zone could pass laws to advance their clocks by one hour, either year-round or for part of the year. States that span multiple time zones would be able to make that change statewide or by time-zone region. Supporters say the bill would end the twice-a-year clock change while better aligning daily schedules with morning light.
What states, territories currently observe the time change? The debate over daylight saving time has played out repeatedly in Congress and state legislatures. Hawaii and most of Arizona already stay on standard time year-round, while the Navajo Nation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, does observe daylight saving time. U.S. territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands also do not observe daylight saving time. Nearly 20 states have passed legislation to observe daylight saving time year-round if Congress allows it. Current federal law allows states to opt out of daylight saving time and remain on standard time, but states cannot independently adopt permanent daylight saving time.”
SUMMER TIME vs WINTER TIME
https:/salon.com/2022/03/16/sunshine-protection-act-health/
Would permanent daylight saving time actually improve our sleep?
by Nicole Karlis / March 16, 2022
“What difference does moving the time one hour forward or back really make? Apparently, a lot, as legislators are once again trying to put a permanent end to biannual clock-changing by making daylight saving time permanent. The issue of daylight saving time has been at the forefront of public discussion in the past few years, with the possibility of change on the horizon in 2020 and 2021. Previously, there was even a trial period of year-round daylight saving between January 1974 to April 1975 to conserve energy (though the change didn’t last).
But this week, the possibility of canceling the national practice of changing our clocks has truly entered the realm of possibility. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a piece of legislation, called the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, and put an end to the twice-annual time shift. The next step is for the House of Representatives to pass the bill, and then for President Joe Biden to sign off his approval. The White House hasn’t said whether or not Biden is in favor of making daylight saving time permanent, according to Reuters.
Whether or not the clock-changing ritual goes kaput, daylight saving time has elicited strong feelings in the realm of public discourse. Advocates for making daylight saving time permanent argue that the sleep loss caused by having one 23-hour day a year is unhealthy. That argument might seem odd: does losing one hour of sleep one day once a year really affect our health that much? Yet there have been many studies into the so-called adverse health benefits of daylight saving time — even if there are some questions as to how much merit they hold.
The truth is, the health benefits (and issues) caused by daylight saving time are hard to directly measure, as it has been near-impossible to conduct nationwide studies on the topic. Studies that attempt to measure its effects are often limited because they don’t track the changes long-term, or because their sample sizes aren’t big enough. The most famous example of this involves research that suggested that daylight saving time increases the risk of a heart attack.
In 2014, researchers analyzed data from hospitals in Michigan between 2010 and 2013 and found that they admitted an average of 32 heart attack patients on any given Monday. But on the Monday immediately after daylight saving time, there was an average of eight additional heart attack patients (25 percent more). The research was presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 63rd Annual Scientific Session. “What’s interesting is that the total number of heart attacks didn’t change the week after daylight saving time,” said Amneet Sandhu, lead investigator of the study. “But these events were much more frequent the Monday after the spring time change, and then tapered off over the other days of the week.”
In science, this is known as an association, not a cause — meaning that this study only shows a mere connection which could be coincidental. Without more research, it would be a mistake to say that daylight saving time is causing more heart attacks. There are similar limitations with studies that suggested there are more car crashes following DST. “Researchers have studied a stark change — the day after daylight saving time, or a week after — but what is so much harder to study is the entire summer or winter,” Severin Borenstein, a Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, previously told Salon in an interview. Advocates for making daylight saving time permanent argue that the sleep loss caused by having one 23-hour day a year is unhealthy.
Then, there’s the question of sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine argues that a permanent standard time, due to its brighter mornings, is better for our health because it’s more naturally aligned with our circadian cycle. “Although chronic effects of remaining in daylight saving time year-round have not been well studied, daylight saving time is less aligned with human circadian biology — which, due to the impacts of the delayed natural light/dark cycle on human activity, could result in circadian misalignment, which has been associated in some studies with increased cardiovascular disease risk, metabolic syndrome and other health risks,” the coalition of scientists stated in 2020. “It is, therefore, the position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine that these seasonal time changes should be abolished in favor of a fixed, national, year-round standard time.”
Such a change would mean that winters would still have very early sunsets, as they do currently, while summer sunsets and sunrises would be an hour earlier than they are in the current regime of daylight saving. One study published in 2006 analyzed the timing of sleep and activity for eight weeks in 50 people after the daylight saving time transition. The authors of the study bluntly concluded that “the human circadian system does not adjust to DST.” In a separate study that surveyed 55,000, researchers found that on their days off, despite the DST time change, people followed the seasonal progression of dawn, and not the time on their clocks.
That suggests you cannot “trick” the body’s natural sleep rhythms, which are based on the intensity of sunlight, by merely changing the clock. But how much more well rested would Americans actually be were we to switch to a permanent standard time? The best estimate is 19 minutes, as one study found that an extra hour of light in the evening — pushing the clock forward — reduces sleep duration by an average of 19 minutes. Still, the debate around the health effects might boil down to how much Americans view daylight saving time as an inconvenience, as the gravity of the situation remains truly difficult to capture. “Their knee-jerk response is that they hate the shift so much they think we should just get rid of it,” Borenstein said. “If we do go on permanent DST I will be interested to see how it works out, but my guess is that people would say in a few years it isn’t a good idea.”
NOT a MORNING PERSON?
https://theconversation.com/life-would-be-better-if-always-daylight-saving-time
5 ways life would be better if it were always daylight saving time
by / March 4, 2019
“In my research on daylight saving time, I have found that Americans don’t like it when Congress messes with their clocks. In an effort to avoid the biannual clock switch in spring and fall, some well-intended critics of DST have made the mistake of suggesting that the abolition of DST – and a return to permanent standard time – would benefit society. In other words, the U.S. would never “spring forward” or “fall back.” They are wrong. DST saves lives and energy and prevents crime. Not surprisingly, then, politicians in Washington and Florida have passed laws aimed at moving their states to DST year-round. Congress should seize on this momentum to move the entire country to year-round DST. In other words, turn all clocks forward permanently. If it did so, I see five ways that Americans’ lives would immediately improve.
Lives would be saved
Simply put, darkness kills – and darkness in the evening is far deadlier than darkness in the morning. The evening rush hour is twice as fatal as the morning for various reasons: Far more people are on the road, more alcohol is in drivers’ bloodstreams, people are hurrying to get home and more children are enjoying outdoor, unsupervised play. Fatal vehicle-on-pedestrian crashes increase threefold when the sun goes down. DST brings an extra hour of sunlight into the evening to mitigate those risks. Standard time has precisely the opposite impact, by moving sunlight into the morning. A meta-study by Rutgers researchers demonstrated that 343 lives per year could be saved by moving to year-round DST. The opposite effect would occur if the U.S. imposed year-round standard time.
Crime would decrease
Darkness is also a friend of crime. Moving sunlight into the evening hours has a far greater impact on the prevention of crime than it does in the morning. This is especially true for crimes by juveniles, which peak in the after-school and early evening hours. Criminals strongly prefer to do their work in the darkness of evening and night. Crime rates are lower by 30 percent in the morning to afternoon hours, even when those morning hours occur before sunrise, when it’s still dark. A 2013 British study found that improved lighting in the evening hours could reduce the crime rate by up to 20 percent.
Energy would be saved
Many people don’t know that the original justification for the creation of DST was to save energy, initially during World War I and II and then later during the 1973 OPEC oil crisis. When the sun is out later in the evening, peak energy loads are reduced. Virtually everyone in our society is awake and using energy in the early evening hours when the sun sets. But a considerable portion of the population is still asleep at sunrise, resulting in significantly less demand for energy then. Having more sun in the evening requires not just less electricity to provide lighting, but reduces the amount of oil and gas required to heat homes and businesses when people need that energy most.
Under standard time, the sun rises earlier, reducing morning energy consumption, but only half of Americans are awake to be able to use the sun. This rationale motivated some in California to recommend permanent DST a decade ago, when the state experienced recurrent electricity shortages and rolling brown-outs. Officials at the California Energy Commission estimated that 3.4 percent of California’s winter energy usage could be saved by moving to year-round DST. Similarly, DST resulted in 150,000 barrels of oil saved by the U.S. in 1973, which helped combat the effect of OPEC’s oil embargo.
Avoiding clock switches improves sleep
Critics of DST are correct about one thing: The biannual clock switch is bad for health and welfare. It wreaks havoc with people’s sleep cycles. Heart attacks increase 24 percent in the week after the U.S. “springs forward” in March. There’s even an uptick during the week in November when the clocks “fall back.” If that’s not bad enough, a study from 2000 shows that the major financial market indexes NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ average negative returns on the Monday trading day following both clock switches, presumably because of disrupted sleep cycles. Critics of biannual clock switching sometimes use these points to argue in favor of permanent standard time. However, I think it’s important to note that these same sleep benefits are available under year-round DST, too. Plus, standard time doesn’t offer the energy or lifesaving or crime prevention effects of DST.
Recreation and commerce flourish in the sun
Finally, recreation and commerce flourish in daylight and are hampered by evening darkness.Americans are less willing to go out and shop in the dark, and it’s not very easy to catch a baseball in darkness either. These activities are far more prevalent in the early evening than they are in the early morning hours, so sunlight is not nearly as helpful then. Not surprisingly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as most outdoor recreational interests favors extended DST. Research shows that sunlight is far more important to Americans’ health, efficiency and safety in the early evening than it is in the early morning. That’s not to say there aren’t downsides to DST – notably, an extra hour of morning darkness. But I believe the advantages of extended DST far outweigh those of standard time. It is past time that the U.S. sets the clocks forward forever, and never has to switch them again.”
the WASTE of DAYLIGHT
https://der-die-das-deutsch.com/en/die-sommerzeit
https://worldclocklive.com/blog/history-of-daylight-saving-time/
The Complete History of Daylight Saving Time / May 8, 2026
“Twice a year, approximately 1.6 billion people in over 70 countries adjust their clocks by one hour. It seems like a minor inconvenience | until you miss a flight, join a meeting an hour late, or lose an hour of sleep. But where did this global practice come from? The history of Daylight Saving Time is a story of satire, war, energy crises, and a surprising amount of political controversy spanning more than two centuries.
The Benjamin Franklin Myth
Many people believe Benjamin Franklin invented Daylight Saving Time. This is not exactly true. In 1784, while living in Paris as an American diplomat, the 78-year-old Franklin wrote a satirical letter to the Journal of Paris titled An Economical Project. He joked that Parisians could save millions of francs on candles if they simply woke up earlier to use the morning sunlight. He proposed ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise to wake everyone up. It was satire, not a serious proposal, but the core insight (aligning waking hours with daylight to save energy) would prove remarkably durable.
The Real Inventor: George Hudson
The first person to seriously propose modern Daylight Saving Time was George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist and postal worker. In 1895, Hudson presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight saving shift. As a shift worker who collected insects in his spare time, Hudson valued daylight hours after his workday ended. His proposal was ridiculed at first. One critic suggested Hudson simply ask his boss to let him leave work earlier. But Hudson persisted, and his idea slowly gained traction.
William Willett: The British Champion
The man most responsible for making DST a reality was William Willett, a British builder from Chislehurst, Kent. The story goes that Willett was riding his horse through Petts Wood one summer morning in 1905 when he noticed most houses still had their curtains drawn, even though the sun had been up for hours. He calculated that advancing clocks by 80 minutes in four 20-minute steps during April and reversing them in September would save 2.5 million pounds per year in lighting costs. In 1907, Willett self-published a pamphlet titled The Waste of Daylight and began an intense lobbying campaign. He gained the support of prominent politicians, including a young Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George. Parliament debated a Daylight Saving Bill in 1908 and 1909, but it failed both times. Willett died of influenza in 1915 at age 58, never seeing his idea implemented.
Sommerzeit (Summer Time)
What Willett could not achieve in peacetime, war accomplished almost overnight. On April 30, 1916, Germany and its ally Austria-Hungary became the first countries to implement Sommerzeit (summer time), advancing clocks by one hour to conserve coal for the war effort. The logic was simple: if people had an extra hour of daylight in the evening, they would use less artificial lighting and burn less coal, which could instead power the war machine. Britain followed on May 21, 1916. The United States adopted DST in 1918 (and then repealed it in 1919 due to opposition from farmers, who hated losing morning daylight).
British Double Summer Time
During World War II, Britain took DST to extremes. From 1941 to 1945, the UK operated on British Double Summer Time (BDST): UTC+2 in summer and UTC+1 in winter. This meant that on the longest summer days, the sun set after 10:00 PM in London. The goal was to maximize productivity in factories and reduce the risk from German bombing raids, which typically began after dark. The United States also instituted year-round DST from February 1942 to September 1945, calling it War Time.
Uniform Time Act
After the wars, DST became a permanent but chaotic fixture of modern life. The United States standardized DST dates in 1966 with the Uniform Time Act, though states could opt out (as Hawaii and most of Arizona did). The energy crisis of the 1970s led to year-round DST in the US for two winters (1974-1975), but it was so unpopular (children going to school in pitch darkness) that Congress repealed it after just one winter. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended US DST by four weeks (starting three weeks earlier in March and ending one week later in November), effective 2007. Meanwhile, the European Union standardized DST dates across all member states in 2002. Chile, which had abolished DST in 2015, reinstated it in 2016. And many countries near the equator never adopted it at all because day length varies little throughout the year.
The Growing Abolition Movement
In the 21st century, the tide has begun to turn against DST. Research consistently shows that the spring-forward transition increases heart attacks by 24%, workplace injuries by 6%, and traffic accidents by 6% in the days following the change. The European Parliament voted in 2019 to allow member states to choose permanent summer or winter time starting in 2021, though implementation has stalled. Mexico abolished DST for most of the country in 2022. Brazil abolished it in 2019. Russia stopped in 2014. The question is no longer whether DST saves energy (the evidence says it does not, or at least negligibly so) but whether the health, safety, and convenience costs outweigh any perceived benefits. The answer increasingly appears to be yes.”
PREVIOUSLY
HAPPY NEW YEAR APRIL FOOLS
https://spectrevision.net/2015/03/26/happy-new-year-april-fools/
RIGHT to be LAZY
https://spectrevision.net/2015/09/03/fit-to-work/
FINANCIAL ASTROLOGY
https://spectrevision.net/2015/09/11/front-running-the-shemitah/
“Evangeline Adams altered [vanity?] chart for J.P.Morgan, founder of the Morgan Bank: Born April 17, 1837, Hartford, Connecticut. 3:00 AM LMT (as of his grandfather’s diary) or adjusted to 1:10 PM, LMT (by Evangeline Adams, astrologer to Morgan). J.P. Morgan Died, March 31, 1913, 00:30 AM, in Rome, Italy.”
HOW to RESET your CALENDAR
https://spectrevision.net/2016/04/01/how-to-reset-your-calendar/
METRIC TIME
https://spectrevision.net/2021/10/26/year-one/
SEVEN DAY WEEKS
https://spectrevision.net/2022/01/01/seven-day-weeks/
