Is Daylight Savings Time Now Permanent? All You Need To Know As Senate Passes ‘Sunlight Protection Act’:
Daylight Savings Time is an attempt to push sunset back an hour during summer, instead of “wasting” that extra hour of daylight early in the morning when most people are in bed. In practice, its exact effect depends on where you live in the U.S. with locations further west in a time zone more affected by the clocks “springing forward.”
In most of the the U.S. DST begins onnthe second Sunday in March and persists until the first Sunday in November. This year it began on Sunday, March 13, 2022. That date saw the clocks “spring forward” by an hour at 2 a.m. Come fall the clocks will “fall back” at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 6, 2022. That will still happen whether or not the Sunlight Protection Act becomes law because it applies to 2023 and beyond. So the final time most of the U.S. changes it clocks could be in March 2023.As of this week the Sun appears to be setting about an hour later than it was last week. It also appears to be rising an hour later, so the early mornings are darker.
The clocks “springing forward” is good news for those that prefer to drive home from work while it’s still light, though there is actually
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