With the U.S. senate passing  legislation that will make daylight saving time permanent by 2023, the question has to be asked why?

This has actually been a prevailing issue for many people throughout the United States. To put it into perspective a 2019 poll found that 71% of Americans prefer to no longer change their clocks twice a year. Although it has not been passed by the House of Representatives or been approved by Joe Biden, supporters of this legislation are advocating for brighter afternoons and believe it will give way to more economic activity. Due to these advantages since 2015, about 30 states have introduced legislation to end the twice-yearly changing of clocks. Senior Hayes Walker says, “I think they should just make daylight saving time permanent, I don’t really see a pressing issue that would require us to keep changing the clocks year after year.”

Most people don’t find daylight savings time as essiential to life, most agree that it only possess a challenge whenever you are forced to change your sleep schedule. Because of these reasons a majority of the citizens in the U.S. are on board for this shift to make daylight saving time permanent. Conner Stallings sums it up as he says, “I think its quite frankly pointless, it just gets darker sooner and we have less time in our days, and the reason we started it is to reserved resources in World War II and we don’t need that anymore.”