It’s seems that twice a year — around St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween, we hear of efforts to substitute that ritual of springing ahead and falling back an hour with a permanent time zone — in our case, Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
Many states have tinkered with the idea, but the lack of a national commitment to the concept has left it in limbo.
And right on time, as we prepared Saturday to move our clocks an hour ahead, another push to end this practice appeared in the public domain.
This iteration might hold more promise, since it’s received bipartisan support from several U.S. senators, including our junior member from Massachusetts, Ed Markey.
Yes, Markey seeks a permanent solution to his antiquated spring-fall exercise.
Our senator has joined several colleagues in proposing legislation that would establish nationwide Daylight Saving Time.
Markey joined U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Rick Scott, R-Fla., James Lankford, R-Okla., Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., in reintroducing the Sunshine Protection Act, legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent across the country.
The bill reflects the Florida legislature’s 2018 passage of year-round Daylight Saving Time; however, Florida’s measure required a change in the federal statute.
Massachusetts also has pondered similar legislation.
In November 2017, state lawmakers received a report by a special commission highlighting the benefits of switching Massachusetts’ time zone.
That panel, chaired by then Lowell state Sen. Eileen Donoghue, researched the potential merits of the commonwealth making that decision. The study concluded that “under certain circumstances, the state could make a data-driven case for moving to the Atlantic Time Zone year-round,” effectively creating yearlong Daylight Saving Time.
Changing to permanent Daylight Saving Time could also improve the economy, create less street crime and lead to a healthier public, the report found, using research and input from experts.
However, the study concluded that for permanent Daylight Saving Time to occur, most Northeast states, especially New York, would need to follow Massachusetts’ lead.
That’s apparently as far as that effort progressed.
The senators’ proposed legislation would apply to those states that currently participate in Daylight Saving Time — all except Hawaii and parts of Arizona — which is observed for eight months out of the year. Standard Time, from November to March, would be eliminated.
This congressional push found the same general benefits — economic, health, public safety — contained in Massachusetts’ study.
The history of Daylight Saving Time indicates it originated and was subsequently adopted in reaction to momentous global events.
It was introduced during World War I. In an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria began saving daylight on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October.
While many other countries immediately adopted this practice, it wasn’t formally adopted in the U.S. until 1918. After the war ended, Daylight Saving Time proved so unpopular that it was repealed in 1919.
During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called “War Time,” from Feb. 9, 1942, to Sept. 30, 1945.
And on Jan. 4, 1974, due to the Mideast oil embargo, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973. Clocks were set an hour ahead.
On Oct. 5, 1974, Congress amended the act, and Standard Time returned.
We don’t need world wars or an energy crisis to appreciate the benefits of Daylight Saving Time.
It will lighten our moods during the darkest days of the year and provide prolonged sunlight when most of us go about our post-work activities.
That alone should be sufficient to make this long overdue change.
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