Clocks will skip ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday for daylight saving time in most of the U.S., creating a 23-hour day that throws off sleep schedules,
plunges early-morning dog walks into darkness and inspires millions of complaints
Even though polls show many 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.
There’s no law we can pass to move the sun to our will,” said Jay Pea, the president of Save Standard Time, an organization devoted to switching to standard time for good.