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As Congress once again attempts to meddle with America’s clocks, it’s worth reviewing how Americans think about daylight saving time.
A March YouGov poll identifies the problem that Congress is trying to solve: “Two-thirds of Americans say they would like to eliminate changing the clocks twice a year, following the leads of Arizona and Hawaii, which do not observe Daylight Saving Time,” the pollster revealed.
But rather than just ask the public what they prefer — daylight or standard time — the pollster asked when voters would prefer to have more light. YouGov found that a majority “prefer for it to get dark later in the evenings.” But the pollster also found that about one-third of respondents would prefer an earlier sunrise.
In total, “21 percent of Americans prefer for it to get light earlier and dark later” — which is another way of saying that people enjoy the long, sunny days of summer more than the short, dark days of winter.
That’s not much of a revelation, nor is there anything that Congress can do about it.