At the state level, there’s the same hunt for consensus.Īn extra hour of daylight might be welcome news for many, but unless US states and neighboring countries can work together to reach an agreement, people will continue to face a return to darkness.Download Save Story for Facebook Stories - Download PC for free at BrowserCam. British Columbia is waiting for Washington, Oregon, and California to make a switch with it. Ontario passed similar legislation in 2020, but the shift only takes effect if its neighbors, Quebec and New York, do the same. Delaware passed a law in 2019 to permanently adopt daylight saving time, but this was contingent on bordering Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland doing the same. In the US, lawmakers in individual states have tried to take things into their own hands. Arizona and Hawaii already do not switch clocks to daylight saving time, and some parts of Canada also don’t make the switch. In Mexico, lawmakers decided to do away with clock changes after 2022 (though its law exempted some cities along the northern border that may still change to sync with the US).
Argentina stopped switching to daylight saving time in 2009.
While the US and Europe are stuck-over both abolishing the seasonal resetting and which time to settle on-shifts have happened elsewhere. It found that an hour of later daylight decreased sleep by an average of 19 minutes. A 2019 US study compared sleep patterns of people living on opposite edges of the same time zone, where the sun rises and sets at different times. Plus, extra evening daylight can mess with people’s sleep. The issue, says Güell Sans, is whether we stay on standard time or daylight saving time forever. Still, the US, Europe, and a few other nations are finding it hard to break the habit. Research has shown how moving the clocks forward and back, even by just one hour, negatively affects the economy, road safety, and health.
“Globally, the debate is fixed-there are more countries not changing the clocks,” says Ariadna Güell Sans, co-coordinator of the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society, an organization focused on time-related policy. In the US and Europe, the practice caught on and persisted. Nations started switching between standard time in winter and daylight saving time in summer during the First World War, as they sought to cut energy costs-an extra hour of daylight in the evening meant less time with the lights on. Much of the world has avoided or abandoned the practice, but in the US and Europe, lawmakers have been unable to stop the clocks from changing. Europe will suffer the same loss two weeks later-a victim of the persistent and unpopular practice of switching to daylight saving time. On March 12, most of the US and Canada will wake up to an hour stolen.
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