Daylight saving time
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| 2025 |
Energy Policy Act of 2005
Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act extended through this year.
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| April 6 2025 |
Daylight saving time by country
Morocco increases local time by one hour on the Sunday after Ramadan at 02:00, completing their annual time change cycle.
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| 2025 | A publication predicts that due to changes in consumption patterns like increased air conditioning use, additional electricity consumption is expected to occur more frequently during daylight saving time. |
| 2025 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
Washington planned a bill that includes legislation for permanent standard time.
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| 2025 |
Summer time in Europe
Poland intends to resolve the DST issue during its presidency of the EU.
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| February 23 2025 |
Daylight saving time by country
Morocco reduces local time by one hour at 03:00, occurring on the Sunday before Ramadan.
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| January 7 2025 |
Sunshine Protection Act
Rick Scott introduces the Sunshine Protection Act in the Senate during the 119th Congress.
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| January 3 2025 |
Sunshine Protection Act
Vern Buchanan introduces the Sunshine Protection Act in the House during the 119th Congress.
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| 2024 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
Oregon's bill for permanent standard time failed.
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| August 2024 |
Daylight saving time in Asia
The House Committee on Economic Affairs approved Representative Olivarez's Daylight Saving Time Act to mitigate disruptions caused by climate change.
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| July 16 2024 |
Summer time in Europe
The bill to end daylight saving time transitions was passed, with the last clock transition scheduled for 27 October 2024.
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| March 2024 |
Daylight saving time in the United States
A Michigan Senate Bill was introduced to let voters decide on the continued practice of changing clocks twice a year, which was referred to the Senate Committee on Government Operations.
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| 2023 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
California proposed a bill to establish permanent standard time.
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| 2023 |
Summer time in Europe
Greenland moved to permanent summer time (UTC-02:00) in the spring.
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| 2023 |
Sunshine Protection Act
A YouGov poll found that 62% of Americans would prefer to stop switching clocks, with varied preferences among those supporting the change: half supported permanent daylight time, 31% favored permanent standard time, and 19% were undecided.
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| March 2023 |
Daylight saving time in Asia
Representative Edwin Olivarez proposed House Bill No. 7750, the Daylight Saving Time Act, to allow the President to implement DST during the first half of the year.
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| March 28 2023 |
Daylight saving time in Asia
The Lebanese government reversed a decision about daylight saving time, initially planning to delay the shift by a month to help Muslim citizens break their fasts earlier during Ramadan. The decision was subsequently dismissed.
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| March 1 2023 |
Sunshine Protection Act
Vern Buchanan and Marco Rubio reintroduce the Sunshine Protection Act in the House and Senate during the 118th Congress.
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| January 3 2023 |
Daylight saving time in the United States
117th Congress ended without the House voting on the Sunshine Protection Act.
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| 2022 | A publication of three replicating studies demonstrated that sleep loss from daylight saving time negatively affects human motivation to help others, showing reduced altruistic giving and deactivation of social cognition brain network nodes. |
| 2022 | Mexico observes its last daylight saving time, restoring permanent standard time. |
| 2022 |
Daylight saving time by country
Countries like Syria and Turkey permanently adopted time zones equivalent to DST, reflecting ongoing global variations in time management strategies.
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| 2022 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
California's bills for permanent daylight saving time failed.
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| November 2022 |
Summer time in Europe
The Greenland parliament voted to remain on permanent summer time starting from spring 2023.
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| October 5 2022 |
Daylight saving time in Asia
Jordan abolished Daylight Saving Time and permanently switched to UTC+03:00 time zone, effectively eliminating the previous winter and summer time distinctions.
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| October 4 2022 |
Daylight saving time in Asia
Syria officially abolished Daylight Saving Time, permanently changing the country's time zone to UTC+03:00 and eliminating the previous winter and summer time distinctions.
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| September 22 2022 |
Daylight saving time in Asia
Iran concludes its most recent period of daylight saving time implementation.
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| March 2022 |
Daylight saving time in Asia
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority studied proposals to implement daylight saving time to address heavy vehicular traffic in the National Capital Region.
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| March 15 2022 |
Sunshine Protection Act
The Sunshine Protection Act passes the Senate by unanimous consent.
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| March 15 2022 |
Daylight saving time in the United States
US Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act by unanimous consent, which would have made daylight saving time permanent starting November 5, 2023.
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| 2021 |
Daylight saving time in Oceania
The Fiji government announced that the country would not observe daylight saving time in the 2021–22 period.
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| 2021 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
Georgia introduced two simultaneous bills - one for permanent standard time and another for permanent daylight saving time.
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| 2021 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
Georgia General Assembly passed Senate Bill 100 for year-round daylight saving time, pending Congressional amendment of federal law.
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| 2021 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
Senator Marco Rubio introduced the 'Sunshine Protection Act' for the fourth consecutive year. Florida Representative Vern Buchanan also proposed a bill to change the entire country's time zone forward by an hour.
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| September 20 2021 |
Daylight saving time in Samoa
Official announcement made by Samoa's Cabinet to cease Daylight Saving Time practice, just six days before the 12th DST was scheduled to begin.
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| April 4 2021 |
Daylight saving time in Samoa
Samoa concluded its 11th and final daylight saving time period at 4:00 a.m., permanently reverting to the UTC+13:00 time zone.
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| March 19 2021 |
Summer time in Europe
The bill was rejected in the second reading, failing to receive the required 226 votes and was sent for an additional second reading.
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| March 9 2021 |
Sunshine Protection Act
Marco Rubio files the Sunshine Protection Act in the U.S. Senate during the 117th Congress.
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| March 3 2021 |
Summer time in Europe
The Verkhovna Rada voted on bill No. 4201 to abandon daylight saving time transitions, receiving 277 votes in the first reading.
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| January 4 2021 |
Sunshine Protection Act
Vern Buchanan files the Sunshine Protection Act in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 117th Congress.
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| 2020 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
California's bills for permanent daylight saving time failed.
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| 2020 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
Senator Marco Rubio once again introduced the 'Sunshine Protection Act' to Congress, pursuing permanent DST legislation.
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| October 2020 |
Summer time in Europe
A proposal to repeal the summer time directive and allow member states to choose their own time observance stalls in the legislative process.
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| September 2020 |
Daylight saving time in Australia
Monash University Professor Paul Zimmet claimed that daylight saving time causes increased health risks, but Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews supported continuing the practice.
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| August 2020 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine provided a statement opposing permanent Daylight Saving Time and advocating for permanent standard time.
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| January 31 2020 |
Summer time in Europe
United Kingdom left the EU, potentially allowing it to make independent time-change decisions.
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| 2019 |
Daylight saving time in the United States
Tennessee and Oregon passed bills for year-round daylight saving time, with legislative houses in Alabama and Arkansas approving supporting resolutions.
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| 2019 | Morocco started observing daylight saving time every month except during Ramadan. |
| 2019 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) released a comprehensive statement and materials supporting permanent standard time over permanent Daylight Saving Time.
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| 2019 |
Permanent time observation in the United States
Senator Marco Rubio reintroduced the 'Sunshine Protection Act' to Congress for the second time, continuing efforts to allow permanent DST.
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