Oklahoma senator files to keep Central Daylight Time year-round
Sen. Nathan Dahm from Damaged Arrow has filed laws to maintain Daylight Saving Time in place year-round. This laws happens whereas Oklahomans are nonetheless adjusting to the annual November time change. Senate Invoice 1103 would create CDT in Oklahoma and put an finish to the turning clocks again in November, and ahead in March. Roughly 18 different states have already handed measures to make this alteration everlasting, pending the approval of federal laws. “A bunch of specialists and analysis reveals these arbitrary time modifications throw off folks’s physique clocks, disrupting sleep and rising the chance of well being issues together with coronary heart assaults, melancholy and fatigue,” Dahm stated. “It will increase the chance of automobile accidents, and a few research even level to increased crime charges when it is darkish earlier. It’s time to finish this four-month disruption and maintain that additional hour of daylight all yr lengthy.”SB 1103 can be thought of when the 2022 Legislature convenes in February.See associated video within the participant above.
Sen. Nathan Dahm from Damaged Arrow has filed laws to maintain Daylight Saving Time in place year-round.
This laws happens whereas Oklahomans are nonetheless adjusting to the annual November time change.
Senate Invoice 1103 would create CDT in Oklahoma and put an finish to the turning clocks again in November, and ahead in March. Roughly 18 different states have already handed measures to make this alteration everlasting, pending the approval of federal laws.
“A bunch of specialists and analysis reveals these arbitrary time modifications throw off folks’s physique clocks, disrupting sleep and rising the chance of well being issues together with coronary heart assaults, melancholy and fatigue,” Dahm stated. “It will increase the chance of automobile accidents, and a few research even level to increased crime charges when it is darkish earlier. It’s time to finish this four-month disruption and maintain that additional hour of daylight all yr lengthy.”
SB 1103 can be thought of when the 2022 Legislature convenes in February.
See associated video within the participant above.