SC passed a law so you’d stop changing your clocks. Why you still need to spring forward
Round up your clocks because it’s that time of year again.
South Carolina will move into daylight saving time starting Sunday, which means clocks across the country will spring forward one hour.
So enjoy the hour of extra sunlight throughout the warmer months of the year, a practice the United States has observed on and off since 1918.
Daylight saving time will end Nov. 6 this year, despite lawmakers’ efforts to do away with it.
The South Carolina Legislature voted in 2020 to make daylight saving time permanent, meaning the state would stop changing the clocks twice a year and wave goodbye to winter months where the sun sets before dinner. However, the law doesn’t take effect until Congress votes to do away with the clock swap.
South Carolina is far from the first state to vote to do away with daylight saving time clock changes.
In the last eight years, more than 350 bills and resolutions have been introduced across the country to stop the clock swap, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Eighteen states passed legislation or resolutions calling for year-round daylight saving time if Congress were to act on the issue, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Hawaii and Arizona do not observe daylight saving time.
There are annual, bipartisan efforts in Congress to make daylight saving time permanent. But each year, they get stuck in committee.
This story was originally published March 12, 2022 at 5:00 AM.
