Daylight savings has been a practice that Americans adopted since March 19th, 1918. The practice consists of advancing our clocks forward during warmer months so darkness falls later in the day and moving the time back an hour during the colder months. Our yearly routine of adjusting time has been around for decades but might come to an end. An act called the Sunshines Protection Act will ensure that daylight savings is permanent, so we never have to adjust our clocks again. The act was first introduced in 2018 by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio but was denied. After being denied 4 times within the years of 2018 to 2019, the act was referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce on January 4th, 2021, and passed by the Senate with unanimous consent on March 9th, 2020. By passing the act, the United States will permanently have daylight saving time by next year. Even though this act seems well on its way to becoming an official law it has 2 more obstacles to face. The Sunshine Protection Act has to be approved by the House and signed by President Joe Biden before seeing the year 2023.
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