Get ready for it to get dark earlier — or, more accurately, to get earlier by the time it’s dark.
Daylight Saving Time will end on Sunday, Nov. 7.
Clocks will fall back an hour at 2 a.m., offering an extra hour of sleep that weekend.
The negative? The days will feel shorter with sunset an hour earlier. As the days continue, the evenings will continue to be darker.
Some seek to prevent this annual fall back.
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey is among a bipartisan group of senators who seek to make Daylight Saving Time permanent across the country.
“Extra sunshine in the evenings not only puts a spring in our step and offers the perfect reason to get outside, but it also positively impacts consumer spending and shifts energy consumption,” Markey said. “Studies have found year-round Daylight Saving Time would improve public health, public safety, and mental health — especially important during this cold and dark COVID winter. I am proud to have co-authored the provision of the 2005 law that extended Daylight Saving Time by several weeks, and I am now proud to sponsor the Sunshine Protection Act to add an extra hour of sunshine for the full 365 days a year.”
Other senators who introduced the bill include Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island; Republican Marco Rubio, of Florida; Republican James Lankford, of Oklahoma, Republican Roy Blunt, of Missouri; Democrat Ron Wyden, of Oregon; Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, of Mississippi; and Republican Rick Scott, of Florida.
“Americans’ lifestyles are very different than they were when Daylight Saving Time began more than a century ago,” Whitehouse said, of the practice that dates back a century. “Making Daylight Saving Time permanent will end the biannual disruptions to daily life and give families more daylight hours to enjoy after work and school.”
The benefits of keeping the clocks forward span from economic to safety, lawmakers say.
A 2015 study by the Brookings Institution suggests that keeping the clock forward — allowing for more daylight in the evenings — could reduce robberies by 27%.
A study by the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Safety Research suggests it could reduce the number of car crashes by better aligning daylight hours to standard work hours, and increasing visibility for commuters.
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