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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Deepti Hajela

America already tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could it work now?

Daylight Saving Reinventing the Clock - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

It's an idea whose time, as it were, may have come — again.

The twice-yearly changing of the clocks in the United States could be a thing of the past if legislation currently in Congress that calls for permanent daylight time makes it through. But even as annoying as some find the back-and-forth of the time shift in the spring and the fall, that doesn't necessarily mean sticking to one would go over well. America has tried it before, most recently in the 1970s, and it didn't last.

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