A poll shows American opinions on permanent Daylight Saving Time are far from uniform.
WASHINGTON — This week the U.S. Senate showed it can still put aside partisan differences and unite for a common goal on some issues. The question at hand: Daylight Saving Time.
From the end of World War II into the 1960s, there were no national laws around Daylight Saving Time. States and entities within states followed their own rules. Local differences played havoc with transit and broadcasting schedules and in response, Washington enacted the Uniform Time Act in 1966. It created a formal schedule for DST with the nation “springing forward” the last Sunday in April and then “falling back” last Sunday in October.
That's a lot of clock tampering. And, for the most part, the movement has been toward codifying and extending DST, except when the public revolted in the 1970s. If the House passes the Senate bill and President Joe Biden signs it into law, would the reaction be different this time? There are reasons to be skeptical.
And when you add in the latitude of where respondents live, the numbers shift a bit. People who live above the 42nd parallel are slightly more likely to want to keep DST the way it is.
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