{"id":938160,"date":"2026-07-16T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:22:17","slug":"how-would-permanent-daylight-saving-time-affect-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938160\/","title":{"rendered":"How would permanent Daylight Saving Time affect you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every March, most of the United States \u201csprings forward\u201d from standard time to Daylight Saving Time, or DST, which remains for the following six months. In recent years, a group of mostly Republican lawmakers have periodically brought the issue of making DST permanent back to public attention with legislative proposals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once suggested by Benjamin Franklin as a cost-saving measure, Daylight Saving Time was ultimately created to extend daylight hours during the summer months. The practice was first implemented across the US and Europe <\/a>to save energy costs<\/a> during World War I and was reinstated during World War II. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established a consistent Daylight Saving Time system across the US. The country briefly tried permanent Daylight Saving Time during the energy crisis of the 1970s, but there has since been a lot of research on <\/a>the impact permanent DST would have on health<\/a> and safety.<\/p>\n

Explore our tool to see how a permanent switch to Daylight Saving Time would affect your life \u2014 including how much you’d see the sun before and after work, school and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every March, most of the United States \u201csprings forward\u201d from standard time to Daylight Saving Time, or DST,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":938161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[97223,105498,51,1730,50,52580,52],"class_list":["post-938160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-daylight-saving-time","tag-dst","tag-headlines","tag-impact","tag-news","tag-permanent","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116927985635765038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}