Malow and other health experts argue that permanent standard time increases people’s exposure to morning sunlight, which is associated with improved sleep. If all seven states moved together, people travelling around this region wouldn’t have to adjust to different times, she adds. Among the neighbouring states she hopes would join such a movement are Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. “Once they agree to go to standard time as a region we wouldn’t need the federal government to tell us what to do,” she explains. She wants her state, and six neighbouring southern states, to secede on this matter together and enshrine permanent standard time into law. Beth Ann Malow, professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is one of many health experts campaigning for an end to daylight saving time. The UK has no plans to give up what it calls British Summer Time, despite a YouGov poll finding that those opposed outnumber those in favour by 40 to 33 per cent.As evidence for the health hazards of twice yearly time switching grows, countries still using daylight saving time must decide which of two time systems is preferable. The change was supposed to be enacted following agreement from the European Council - but the body asked the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, to conduct an impact assessment first, Bloomberg reported. In March 2019, the European Parliament voted to dispense entirely with biannual clock changes. The European Union, too, wants to get rid of daylight savings time. APĪ Time Amendment Act is also picking up steam in Canada to make daylight savings time permanent. It said research has also found a link to seasonal affective disorder, strokes and cardiac arrest.Ĭlock technician Dan LaMoore adjusts the hands on a large outdoor clock under construction in US city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Several US states have attempted to end daylight savings, although few have actually done so.Ī 2022 bill to exempt Virginia said the “overwhelming conclusion” of researchers is that it “directly results” in an increase in heart attacks, traffic accidents, workplace injuries, pedestrian deaths and crime, as well as sleep disruption and a loss of productivity. Senator Marco Rubio has reintroduced the bill in the Senate and House this year. The bill was passed unanimously by the Senate on March 15 last year, but was never brought up for a vote in the House of Representatives. In the US, the Sunshine Protection Act has been proposed to make daylight savings time permanent, removing the need to change clocks twice a year. Summertime, or daylight savings time, will now be “all year”, an official statement said, meaning Jordan will now remain at GMT+3. These countries will now be joined by Jordan after authorities scrapped the measure late last year. However, Egypt decided this month to restore daylight savings time after nearly a decade.Ĭlocks in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Yemen are also not changed, along with India, China and Japan. Which countries have abolished the changes?ĭozens of countries abolished the practice after observing it for many years, including Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Argentina, Brazil and Russia.
The Middle East countries that follow the practice have various start dates in February and March and switch back in September or October, although Lebanon made a surprise decision to postpone the start of daylight savings time this year to April 20. In the US and Canada, the change was made on Sunday March 12 and the clocks will go back again on Sunday November 5. In the UK and mainland Europe, daylight savings time for 2023 will begin at 1am on Sunday, March 26, and end at 2am on Sunday, October 29. In 1916, Germany became the first country to begin the practice, with the US and much of Europe soon following. It is said that many countries adopted the practice during the First World War as a way to conserve coal. The idea of moving the clock forward one hour from standard time is to give people more daylight during summer evenings and more light during winter mornings when clocks go back. So why have some countries stopped it? And why do so many do it in the first place? Why have daylight savings time? More than 70 observe the practice, but many are now considering scrapping it. Jordan to keep daylight savings time year-roundĪbout 60 per cent of countries do not change their clocks.
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