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The U.S. Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time Before. Here’s What Happened
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English - March 18, 2022 12:59 - 5 minutes - 10.4 MB - ★★★★ - 63 ratingsDaily News News Society & Culture spokenlayer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On Tuesday afternoon, just two days after Americans set their clocks forward an hour for Daylight Saving Time, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, so that Americans wouldn't have to turn their clocks back an hour. The overall effect of such a change would be that, in the winter when days are shorter, the extra darkness would shift toward the morning; rather than the sun setting in the middle of the afternoon in some places, it would rise later in the day.