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Daylight Saving Time … forever?

Daylight Saving Time … forever?

FromPost Reports


Daylight Saving Time … forever?

FromPost Reports

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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Mar 18, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, a sleepy Senate voted unanimously to end “spring forward” and “fall back” and make daylight saving time permanent. Read more:The Senate surprised everyone in Washington this week by voting unanimously to end clock-switching in the United States and make daylight saving time permanent. Our health policy and politics reporter Dan Diamond got to take a break from covering the coronavirus to talk about the bipartisan legislation, which would need to get through the House and be signed by President Biden to become law. While there’s broad agreement among sleep experts that the country should abandon its twice yearly, seasonal-time changes, many sleep experts think standard time is better for our circadian rhythms. Check out how permanent daylight saving time would change sunrise and sunset times across the United States. Brighter winter evenings would come at the expense of darker mornings.
Released:
Mar 18, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Post Reports is the daily podcast from The Washington Post. Unparalleled reporting. Expert insight. Clear analysis. Everything you’ve come to expect from the newsroom of The Post. For your ears. Martine Powers is your host, asking the questions you didn’t know you wanted answered. Published weekdays by 5 p.m. Eastern time.