Could This Be The Last Time We Adjust Our Clocks For Daylight Savings Time?

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Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM) –

As we are getting ready to “spring forward” and adjust their clocks for Daylight Saving Time, a group of lawmakers wants to make it the last clock change ever. A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the United States Senate to keep Daylight Savings Time so that come November, Americans don’t have to “fall back” and adjust their clocks again. 

The so-called “Sunshine Protection Act of 2021” was reintroduced Tuesday. In 2018, Florida passed legislation to keep Daylight Savings Time, but a federal statute is required for the state to enact the change.

Fifteen other states, including California, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Washington, have passed similar initiatives to keep Daylight Savings Time year-round and dozens of other states are looking into doing the same.

The “Sunshine Protection Act of 2021” would apply to states who participate in daylight savings time by negating Standard Time, which only lasts between November to March, when Americans turn their clocks back one hour. 

So, if the bill is passed, Americans would keep Daylight Savings Time, which currently lasts from March to November, and wouldn’t have to change their clocks twice a year.

Daylight Savings Time was first enacted in the U.S. due to Germany’s efforts to conserve fuel during World War I in 1916. Its length has changed over the years and some years the U.S. has kept it year-round, such as 1942-1945 and 1974-1975.