The time change will give us an extra hour of sunlight in the evening, and late risers across the country think it should stay that way all year round.

I like the ticking.

Lots of scientific research has made it clear that having sunlight in the afternoon is more important for Americans quality of life, health and safety than it is to have that sunlight at six o'clock in the morning, when half of us are still asleep.

Steve Callen Drill Oh has been studying the costs and benefits of daylight saving time and advocating for a permanent move to it for more than a decade.

That once seemed like a quixotic effort, but no longer.

There is added momentum right now, this moment in our history towards having one time all year round. 00:00:58.370 --> 00:01:9.630 Last year, Florida voted to put itself on permanent daylight saving time, while California voters passed a ballot initiative calling for the same and at least six more states they're currently considering D S T bills.

The one in Washington state was introduced by Jim Honey for who's worked closely with Callen Drill.

Oh, I'm very surprised at the number of people that don't want the time changes.

They would like to stay in one time year around and that that surprised me that it was that great of an interest in that one way to get rid of a twice yearly time changes to just stay on standard time.

Arizona and Hawaii already do this, and four other states are thinking about it, too.

In fact, that was honey for its initial solution.

I got a lot of pushback on that because they like to have time to move along our whatever.

Playing with the kids in the evenings.

And so I switched to staying on daylight savings. 00:01:51.850 --> 00:02:3.530 Time permitting, I've had, uh, a couple of 300 emails and letters favoring eliminating of the time switch, probably 5 to 1, if a favor. 00:02:3.830 --> 00:02:11.290 Staying on daylight Savings time, year around daylight Saving time wasn't originally created to improve people's quality of life.

It was introduced during World War One to save energy and brought back during World War Two for the same reason.

After a stretch where some states used it.

Another's dinner.

It was made permanent by Congress in 1966 and extended an extra month in 2007.

The term standard time is really a misnomer.

It's not our normal anymore.

Almost eight months of the year were actually on daylight saving time.

People's opinion of daylight saving time often depends on when they or their kids wake up.

But permanent D S T does have concrete benefits, like reducing the number of fatal car accidents.

The afternoon commute is also twice as dangerous overall as the morning commute, because there's more alcohol in people's blood streams and are in the evening commute.

The reality is that darkness kills and darkness kills Maurine the evening than it does in the morning. 00:02:59.380 --> 00:03:7.250 If we can move one extra hour of daylight into the evening hours, we can save hundreds of American lives per years preventing crime. 00:03:7.480 --> 00:03:13.030 Criminals like to start their work day in the late afternoon and the evening hours, and they work into the late night.

So by moving sunlight into the evening hours, you take away an hour from criminals day, helping keep down lighting and heating bills and later tee times.

Still, even if states do past year round daylight saving time.

There's one last bureaucratic hurdle.

It takes a literal act of Congress for them to make this switch time for the pro sunlight lobby to get to work.