Nearly every year since 1966, Nevada, like most parts of the United States, has moved its clocks forward one hour each spring and back each fall to coincide with daylight saving time.
But polls over the past few years have consistently shown that a majority of Americans want the clock change to end. When will Nevada change its clock in 2023?
What is daylight saving time?
according to timeanddate.com“Daylight saving time is the practice of setting clocks one hour ahead of standard time in order to take advantage of more sunlight in the evenings of spring, summer and fall. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used to save energy Sunlight can be used more effectively. First used in Thunder Bay, Canada in 1908. “
Considerable responsibility is assigned to Benjamin Franklin. proposed an idea Early morning in summer. Or to farmers whose livestock doesn’t conform to the human clock in the first place. However, DST was first implemented on a large scale in Germany during World War I to conserve coal.
Daylight saving time became the national standard in the United States in 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, established as a way to continue conserving energy. The idea was that if lights were turned off longer in the evening rather than early in the morning, there would be less time in the house where lights would need to be used.
After daylight saving time was extended until early November in 1986, the country spends almost two-thirds of the year in daylight saving time. long daylight hours on halloween night.
When will Nevadans change their clocks in 2023?
Nevada will begin daylight saving time on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:00 AM, clocks will move forward one hour. Daylight saving time ends at 2:00 am on Sunday, November 5, 2023, with clocks set back one hour to standard time.
Will changing the clock affect my health?
Yes, both accidents and heart attacks are to blame, according to some studies. The University of Colorado at Boulder studied 20 years of car crashes and found: 6% increase in fatalities About 28 additional deaths per year will occur in the first week after the clock advances into spring. On the other hand, cardiovascular medicine researchers 24% more heart attacks The Monday after daylight saving time starts in the spring (and 21% fewer heart attacks on the Tuesday after DST ends each fall).
What is the Nevada legislature doing about daylight saving time?
Trio of rural Nevada senators introduced Senate Bill 153 During the 2021 Nevada legislative session, Nevada had planned to observe daylight saving time year-round, but this is pending federal approval. The bill did not go to public hearings in his 2021. As of February 9, no similar measures have been introduced.
Under the Uniform Time Act of 1966, states can choose not to observe daylight saving time, but they are not permitted to choose to observe daylight saving time year-round without federal approval. Neither Arizona nor Hawaii turn the clock forward for summer, as do Puerto Rico, the Navajo, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Can Nevada itself transition to mountain time?
This seems like the easiest way to end the clock change in Nevada, but it’s not.US time zone is determined by U.S. Secretary of Transportationand not by individual state or local officials.
What is the federal government doing about daylight saving time?
A bipartisan group of US Senators led by Senator Marco Rubio sunshine method In 2021. That would have caused the US to switch to daylight saving time permanently. However, the bill failed to get a hearing in the US House of Representatives after it passed the US Senate unanimously last March.
With the new parliament meeting in January, the bill is back to square one.
What other states are considering moving to permanent daylight saving time?
20 states there is already a law about books Permanent daylight saving time enactments approved by the federal government: Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
If the federal government allowed states to set daylight saving time year-round, Nevada would be surrounded by states that wouldn’t change their clocks, and California, Idaho, Oregon, and Utah would move forward permanently if the state legislature didn’t participate. will be Arizona, on the other hand, does not observe her DST at all. (In Nevada, she celebrates midnight on New Year’s Eve by the hour. rear California. )
How do people in northern Nevada feel about daylight saving time?
Polling results during a clock switch vary.Respondents to 2022 YouGov USA Poll 59% supported permanent daylight saving time.
However, another poll Monmouth University in the same month, only 44% wanted DST to be permanent, and 13% were in favor of permanent standard time. Only 35% wanted to keep their current spring-ahead fallback system.
The country has tried permanent DST before, but we weren’t supporters — at least in northern Nevada. In response to the 1973 oil crisis, the federal government transitioned her entire country to full-time daylight saving time in January 1974 to conserve energy. But the locals back then didn’t enjoy the late winter sunrise.
- Bus driver Charlene Franks told the Reno Evening Gazette: “Now it’s almost pitch black until I get to BD[Billinghurst Middle School].”
- “We hate daylight saving time, and many of the ranchers around here are against it,” said Tuscarora’s Stan Ellison. You can’t feed them, that’s the nature of livestock.These cows want to get up when the sun comes up.”
- “We have a hard time because we have to feed the animals at home and they are not used to feeding in the dark,” said student Jane Larson .
- “Daylight savings time all year round. Was this another misstep by our leaders?” Oma C. Hibdon wrote to the editor. “Maybe citizens should fight together and refuse to agree to some of the stupid regulations they’ve been told.”
- Foster Kane said, “To free us from this Nixon snafu, I propose that Congress cut off the remaining years of his term and add them to the term of an able leader.
Are there any advantages to the current clock-changing system?
It’s mostly a matter of opinion. The 1974 Nevadan didn’t like the darkness of the mornings during a brief experiment that introduced his DST permanently.Under full-time daylight saving time, Truckee Meadows residents will be able to live at 8 a.m. in mid-December. We didn’t get to see the sunrise until well after the hour. The morning commute was in the dark, and middle schoolers in the Washoe County School District sat at their desks almost an hour before the sun rose.
On the other hand, if Nevada ceases observing DST, Reno Park will see sunrise before 5am from May through July, and light will appear on the horizon before 4am in mid-June. Toddlers and pets he schedules his day according to the amount of sunlight coming in through the window, rather than around the clock.
Contributed by Mike Snyder, USA TODAY. Jennifer Sangalang, Florida Today. Ginny Biegun, USA TODAY Network-Florida
