On the clock: Daylight saving time stirs controversy and a heated advocacy effort
The debate over switching the time on the clock has become more mainstreamed and polarizing in recent years. | Elise Amendola/AP PhotoWhen the clocks turned back on Sunday morning to end daylight saving time, hungover college kids cheered and parents of young kids lamented their fates. But for Jay Pea and Scott Yates, it was yet another volley in one of the weirder and more vengeful grudge matches currently taking place in the world of public advocacy.
Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent across the country. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images However, Congress must authorize the measure before the states can proceed. And while there don’t appear to be any members arguing the other side — that a permanent standard time is the way to go — or fighting to maintain the status quo of switching back and forth, there is no indication that action is imminent.
There have been movements in the past to quit the biannual clock changing. In the 1970s, the country briefly switched to permanent daylight saving time to accommodate the energy crisis. However, that switch, widely unpopular, was quickly abandoned, said David S. Prerau, an expert on daylight saving time who has written a book on the topic.
Since the beginning of 2020, Yates put up blog posts that suggested Pea was getting funding from, among others, the pharmaceutical industry, and calling him a “sock puppet.”
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