"Even though polls show most people dislike the system that has most Americans changing clocks twice a year, the political moves necessary to change the system haven't succeeded because opinions on the issue and its potential impacts are sharply divided."
"Want to make daylight saving time permanent? That would mean the sun rises around 9 a.m. in Detroit for a while during the winter. Prefer staying on standard time year round? That would mean the sun would be up at 4:11 a.m. in Seattle in June."
"About 1 in 10 U.S. adults favor the current system of changing the clocks, according to an AP-NORC poll conducted last year. About half oppose that system, and some 4 in 10 didn't have an opinion."
Daylight saving time returns Sunday, shifting clocks forward an hour and disrupting sleep schedules and routines for millions. Despite widespread public dissatisfaction with the twice-yearly clock changes, political attempts to reform the system have stalled because of fundamental disagreement about the best alternative. Permanent daylight saving time would delay winter sunrises to around 9 a.m. in some regions, while year-round standard time would result in very early summer sunrises. The U.S. has adjusted its timekeeping since railroads standardized time zones in 1883, and approximately 140 countries have experimented with daylight saving time historically, though fewer maintain it today.
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