As Bob Dylan once almost said, “The time, it is a changing (again).”
That’s right. Come November, Oregon will fall back to standard time as always. Why, you might be wondering, are we doing this again? Didn’t we change the law so we don’t ever have to go back to standard time?
Well, it turns out we haven’t quite gotten to the end of our twice-yearly-self-imposed-sleep-disruption just yet.
Oregon, like several other states, has signed permanent daylight saving time legislation, based on the opinion of many experts that time changes are actually dangerous, increasing rates of things like car accidents and heart attacks.
But we are all still waiting on the federal government to act before the states can make it official.
In March, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, co-sponsored the Sunshine Protection Act, which was reintroduced by U.S, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who originally introduced it in 2019.
That act would make daylight saving time permanent across the country. And it would mean November’s fall back could be the very last one in Oregon.
So far, nothing has changed since March.
“I’ll keep pressing for the Sunshine Protection Act so Oregonians aren’t needlessly springing back and forth each year in an outmoded exercise that research shows is a negative for everybody’s health and our entire economy,” Wyden said in a statement this month. “As the days darken this fall heading into winter, I want to give our country back an hour of daylight permanently by passing this legislation.”
But, as of now, at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 7, we will all take a trip one hour back in our time machines to 1 a.m. Spoiler alert: Your children and pets will not understand.
“Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call,” Dylan actually sang, in that song. “Don’t stand in the doorway. Don’t block up the hall.”
That Bob Dylan. He really gets time changes.
-- Lizzy Acker
503-221-8052, lacker@oregonian.com, @lizzzyacker
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