LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 19: A Fabergé clock is displayed during a photocall for "The Family Collection Of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma" at Sotheby's on March 19, 2021 in London, England. The daughter of Britain’s last Viceroy of India, Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, she was born in 1924 and was the great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married John Knatchbull, 7th Lord Brabourne, who became an Academy-Award nominated film producer, behind titles such as A Passage to India, Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma inherited precious objects associated with her parents from their Art Deco home on Park Lane, in London. Over 350 lots from Patricia and her husband John’s eighteenth-century home Newhouse, will be offered for sale with estimates ranging from 80,000GBP - 100,000GBP. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
If you’re tired of changing your clocks twice a year, you may not have to in the year 2023.
The Senate unanimously passed a bill that could make Daylight Saving Time permanent, if the House also votes in support of the bill.
Known as the Sunshine Protection Act, those who support the bill say it will have a better impact on seasonal depression and allow kids to play outside longer.
Marc Rubio, one of the sponsors of the bill, stated,“I know this is not the most important issue confronting America, but it’s one of those issues where there’s a lot of agreement,” Rubio said. “If we can get this passed, we don’t have to do this stupidity anymore.”
Rubio also stated that the bill delayed implementation until 2023 is because “the transportation industry has already built out schedules on the existing time and asked for additional months to make the adjustment,” CNN reports.
At the hearing, Beth Malow, director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Division stated that this “is like living in the wrong time zone for almost eight months out of the year.”
At this time, it’s not known if President Biden supports the bill.
Daylight Saving Time was first introduced in the 1960’s after being introduced in 1918.
