Time translation this year may be the last in America: what changes await us in 2023

Congress considered repealing the time change, as did several state legislatures, reports Lifehacker.

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The time will soon come again when our clocks will “reverse”—November 6 in the United States will stop using daylight saving time and return to standard time. But then, most likely, in the spring of America, the clocks will have to be changed again. So what happened to these bills in Congress to abolish the clock shift?

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We haven't received a nationwide time change ban yet.

The Sunshine Protection Act is a federal bill that will make daylight savings time permanent.

If passed, it will come into effect on November 5, 2023, when we would have moved our clocks otherwise. As a result, our winter mornings will remain dark for an hour longer than now, but on winter evenings we will have an hour more daylight.

The bill was passed by the Senate in March 2022 but was not passed by the House of Representatives. To become law, it must pass through the House of Representatives and then be signed by the president. It is unlikely that this will happen in the near future. The Hill reported that people generally like the idea of ​​abolishing clock shifts, and that there was no consensus in the House of Representatives on whether daytime or standard time should become constant, and that passing the bill did not appear to be a priority for lawmakers. The bill is unlikely to pass anywhere, at least in the near future.

What about state legislatures?

States have their own views on this issue. Currently, two states operate standard time all year round. If the Sunshine Protection Act is passed, these states (Hawaii and Arizona, excluding the Navajo Nation) will be allowed to keep their standard time.

Nineteen other states have passed laws or regulations that say they will switch to permanent daylight saving time if the federal government ever allows them to do so. These states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, include Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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California voters have approved a law that has yet to be formally registered. However, until a federal law is passed, these states are stuck in their current time zones. The current federal law, passed in 1966, allows states to opt out of Daylight Savings Time (as in Hawaii and Arizona), but states do not have the ability to make Daylight Savings Time permanent or choose their own dates for clock changes.

However, if you're tired of changing the time, you can always move to one of the non-DST areas, including the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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