SEN. RUBIO PUSHES FOR PERMANENT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

 

A movement in Washington aims to keep daylight saving time permanent, notes Grumpy Editor.

 

Behind the push that would end the yearly tradition since World War I of setting clocks ahead an hour in the spring and setting them back in the fall is Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla).

 

On the Senate floor, Rubio argues, "We went through the biannual ritual of changing the cl;ock, and one has to ask themselves, why are we doing this?"  Ending the clock time change, he points out, could send more children outside to play instead of forcing them to play videogames indoors.

 

Under the Senate proposal, that would take effect in fall next year, states would have to select remaining with standard time or daylight saving time year round.

 

The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours to conserve candles was first proposed in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin.

 

 

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