Daylight Saving Time Might Become Permanent, but How Will It Impact Your Health?
The Senate revealed yesterday that it had quietly passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. The bill, which is called theThe bill will now move on to the House of Representatives and, if it passes, to be signed by President Joe Biden. It’s designed to take effect in November 2023, allowing for one more time change in advance of a permanent change.
It’s not clear how the bill will do in the House, but some lawmakers have shown early support for it. “The hearing showed there is widespread agreement on coming up with a permanent solution and I‘m hopeful that we can end the silliness of the current system soon,” New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. said onThe bill was passed unanimously in the Senate and plenty of people celebrated it on Twitter.
The idea behind it—which is generally credited to Benjamin Franklin—is that it allows people to have more daylight in the summer and more light in the morning in the winter. The U.S. officially started following daylight saving time after Congress passed the Standard Time Act in 1918.—refuse to follow it.It’s easy to assume that longer hours of daylight year-round would have a positive impact on your health, but doctors say it’s actually a little more complicated than that.
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