If you’re tired of the twice a year “fall back” and “spring forward” clock change, you may be in luck. It may actually become a thing of the past, as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act earlier this week. The bill would make daylight saving time permanent across most of the country, but it still needs to be approved by the Senate before heading to the president’s desk.
If this becomes law and states stay on daylight saving time year round, instead of being observed from March to November as it is now, our mornings and evenings would look a little different at certain times of the year. According to AccuWeather, winter mornings would be darker, as sunrises would be pushed an hour later.
AccuWeather shares what the sunrise and sunset times would be in some cities on January 15th, if we were on daylight saving time:
- Miami - The sun would rise at 8:09 a.m. and set at 6:51 p.m.
- Boston - Sunrise would be at 8:10 a.m., with sunset at 5:36 p.m.
- Kansas City - The sun would rise at 8:35 a.m. and set at 6:19 p.m.
- Billings, Montana - Sunrise would happen at 8:51 a.m., with sunset at 5:56 p.m.
- Los Angeles - Sunrise would be just before 8 a.m., and sunset shortly after 6 p.m.
But the Sunshine Protection Act wouldn’t affect some parts of the country, including Hawaii and most of Arizona, which already stay on standard time year-round. U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands don’t observe daylight saving time either. But the change isn’t a law yet, so unless it becomes one, we’ll still be turning our clocks back an hour on November 1st.
Source: Martha Stewart