Saturday night marks the end of daylight saving for 2022. As American clocks prepare to jump back an hour, discussions are again raging questioning the continued necessity of the time-change, and if it's time to do away with the practice altogether. A Monmouth University poll found 61% of Americans want to get rid of clock-changing, with 44% wanting year-round daylight saving and 13% wanting year-round standard time. While most Americans are tired of adjusting their clocks, there is disagreement on which time to make permanent.

Key Quotes: A writer for Fox New Opinion called for an end to daylight saving, stating the time-jump “creates havoc with airline and train schedules, confusing people, costing money, and causing accidents and delays.” The writer deemed ending daylight saving a rare opportunity for Congress to enact legislation with bipartisan support. Similar sentiment came from a piece in the Washington Post, which called for permanent standard time while warning of the potential dangers of permanent daylight saving, which a large portion of Americans support, writing “daylight saving time in winter would make every morning a dark, dreary struggle — and people’s health and moods would unravel.”

For Context: Daylight saving pushes clocks one hour forward, resulting in the sun setting one hour later. The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which would make daylight saving time permanent and do away with the biannual jump, was unanimously approved by the Senate but is stuck in the House of Representatives.