Let me start by saying that I think changing the clocks twice a year is annoying.
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved bipartisan legislation last Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent, starting in 2023. But according to BuzzFeed News, the bill, titled the Sunshine Protection Act, sort of passed by accident. Since most senators weren’t even aware it was happening, they didn’t object to it, even though some might have wanted to. (If that sounds absurd, that’s because it is.)
Currently, nearly a dozen states operate on daylight saving time all year long. North Carolina has tried, unsuccessfully, to become one of them; over the years, bills to make daylight saving time permanent have passed the state House of Representatives but died in the Senate. North Carolina’s own Madison Cawthorn even introduced a similar bill in Congress last year, calling for an end to “pointless clock adjustments.”
