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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nCHANGES IN THE MORNING AND EVENING School and commuting: When the clocks fall back an hour, it\u2019ll be lighter earlier in the morning and darker earlier in the evening. Sunrise and sunset: When we move the clocks back at 2 a.m. Nov. 5, sunrise in Miami will be at 6:32 a.m. and sunset will be at 5:37 p.m. Pro tip: Your phone and computer will do it automatically, but turn your other clocks back an hour, including oven and microwave and car dash, before going to sleep on Saturday night, Nov. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HOW YOUR SLEEP IS AFFECTED Loss and gain: Whether you love or hate the time change, we all have one thing in common: We\u2019ll gain back an hour\u2019s sleep this time around. But we\u2019ll lose that extra hour of shut-eye again when we spring ahead next March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A PLAN TO \u2018LOCK THE CLOCK\u2019 Lawmaker action: Weren\u2019t we supposed to see the back-and-forth of time go away? It\u2019s true the issue has come up in the state Legislature and Congress. In March 2023, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act. The Senate had approved the bill in March 2022, but the House did not take action. Rubio\u2019s bill would make daylight saving time permanent, meaning we would no longer turn the clocks back in the fall. \u201cThis ritual of changing time twice a year is stupid,\u201d Rubio, R-Florida, said in March. \u201cLocking the clock has overwhelming bipartisan and popular support.\u201d Background: U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Bradenton, first introduced the legislation in the House in 2018 and has, along with Rubio, pushed the bill to their respective chambers of Congress. \u201cThere are enormous health and economic benefits to making daylight saving time permanent,\u201d Buchanan said earlier this year. In 2018, Florida lawmakers agreed with Buchanan. The Florida Legislature passed the \u201cSunshine Protection Act,\u201d but the permanent change to daylight saving time hasn\u2019t happened. Why? Because the Uniform Time Act of 1966 dictates U.S. Congress must approve of the change for it to be enacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WHY HAVE WE TINKERED WITH THE CLOCK? Saving energy: Daylight saving time is all about a desire to save energy by extending sunlight later in the day during spring and summer. A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy found that the four-week extension of daylight saving time in 2008 saved about 0.5% of the nation\u2019s electricity per day, or 1.3 trillion watt-hours \u2014which is enough to power 100,000 households for an entire year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Safety: Studies have also shown that the extra hour of daylight has resulted in safer roads, lower crime rates and economic benefits. Opposition: Critics, however, say more dark mornings could lead to grogginess for commuters and parents who drive their children to school, especially in the winter months. Disruptions: Other concerns about daylight saving time included disruptions to harvesting schedules for farmers, interference with religious observances based on solar and lunar time, and potential delays in reworking computer systems programmed to switch twice a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS AND OPPOSITION TO THE TIME CHANGE? The start: One of America\u2019s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, is often credited with the daylight saving time idea. Franklin wrote a 1784 essay about it as a way to conserve the need for lamp oil, while New Zealand entomologist George Hudson came up with the modern-day concept in 1895, so he had more daylight to look for bugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wartime: But the idea didn\u2019t gain traction among U.S. lawmakers until World War I, and then in World War II as a wartime measure. The Uniform Time Act in 1966 made the change in time an annual passage throughout the country. School: And while proponents want to stop changing the clocks twice a year, opponents \u2014 mainly parents and teachers \u2014 argue that a permanent daylight saving time means darker mornings and increased safety risks for children heading to school, whether it\u2019s new teen drivers on the road or students walking to a bus stop or nearby school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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