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The United States once attempted to implement permanent daylight saving time, but it was abolished less than a year after its introduction. Now that the proposal is being revisited, will it succeed?

The United States once attempted to implement permanent daylight saving time, but it was abolished less than a year after its introduction. Now that the proposal is being revisited, will it succeed?

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July 16th, 2026

The United States once attempted to implement permanent daylight saving time, but it was abolished less than a year after its introduction. Now that the proposal is being revisited, will it succeed?

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This conception may once again be on the cusp of a historic opportunityat least, the superficial signs would suggest as much.

这一构想或许正再度迎来其历史性契机——至少表面迹象如此

The biannual oscillation between daylight saving time and standard time in the United States may soon become a relic of the pastprovided that the permanent daylight saving time legislation currently being championed in Congress manages to pass unscathed.

美国每年两次的夏令时标准时间交替调整或许即将成为历史陈迹——前提是国会目前推动的永久夏令时立法能够顺利通过

Yet, despite the widespread vexation caused by the spring and autumn time shifts, this does not imply that the adoption of a single time regime would proceed without a hitch.

然而尽管春秋两季的时间转换不少人感到厌烦并不意味着实行单一时间制便能一帆风顺

The United States has previously ventured down this path, with the most recent foray occurring in the 1970s, only to see it ultimately falter and fail to endure.

美国此前曾有过类似尝试最近一次是在20世纪70年代最终未能持续下去

We find ourselves in an unprecedented epoch, one defined by a cohort that had never before experienced the paradigm of remote workconcurrently, groundbreaking advances in sleep science have unveiled a far more intricate and nuanced tableau.

我们正置身于一个前所未有的时代一个由那些此前从未体验过远程办公模式的人群所定义的时代——与此同时睡眠科学领域突破性进展亦为我们揭示一幅更为精妙复杂的图景

Will this temporal adjustment ultimately achieve its desired outcome and culminate in resounding success?

此番时间调整能否如愿以偿最终取得圆满成功呢?

The House of Representatives passed a bill by an overwhelming majority on Tuesday, aiming to make daylight saving timethe practice of advancing clocks by one hourpermanent.

众议院于本周二以压倒性多数票决通过一项法案旨在将夏令时——即时钟拨快一小时之制度——予以永久化。

Currently, clocks are advanced in spring and reverted to standard time in autumn, a practice intended to extend daylight hours for the public during summer evenings.

目前春季时钟向前拨动秋季则回归标准时间此举旨在夏季傍晚为公众延长日照时长

Yet this semi-annual adjustment garners scant approvala poll conducted jointly by the Associated Press and NORC last year revealed that merely 12% of American adults endorse it, while nearly half oppose the practice.

然而这半年一度的调整几乎无人青睐——去年美联社与NORC联合进行的一项民意调查显示仅12%的美国成年人对此表示支持而近半数人持反对态度

Among the proponents of a uniform year-round time system are the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicineinstitutions that place paramount importance on the human circadian rhythm.

主张统一全年时间制的支持者中包括美国医学会与美国睡眠医学学会——这些机构对人体昼夜节律极为重视

The bill must be deliberated and passed by the Senate before it can be submitted to the President for signature, thereby formally becoming law.

该法案须经参议院审议通过方可呈交总统签署从而正式成为法律

President Donald Trump has publicly expressed his support for the bill.

唐纳德·特朗普总统公开表示支持该法案

This matter is far from being as straightforward as it appears on the surface.

此事远非表面那般简单

While people are indeed resistant to change, history reveals that during those months when winter days are shorter than summer ones, they are equally averse to confronting the scarcity of morning sunlight.

人们固然对变革心存抵触,然而历史昭示在冬季白昼较夏季短暂的那些月份里他们同样不愿面对清晨阳光的匮乏

In 1973, the United States Congress enacted a bill to trial permanent daylight saving time from January 1974 through April 1975.

1973年美国国会通过一项法案自1974年1月至1975年4月试行永久夏令时制度

However, the system endured only until October of that same year, when it was abolished due to vehement public protest.

然而该制度仅持续至同年10月便因公众强烈抗议而废止

A principal concern was that primary school children were compelled to travel to school before daybreak.

其中一项主要忧虑在于小学生不得不天色未明时前往学校

To this day, school start times have begun to be deferred to later in the morning.

时至今日学校的上课时间已开始向后推迟

Kevin Birth, an anthropology professor at Queens College, focuses his research on the conceptualisation of time across diverse cultures, yet he retains vivid recollections of his own childhood experiences attending elementary school in Syracuse, New York.

皇后学院人类学教授凯文·伯斯研究专注于时间在不同文化中的概念化方式,而他本人童年时期在纽约州锡拉丘兹市就读小学时的经历仍记忆犹新

I had to get up for school, and it felt as though I were in the dead of night,” he expounds, “the sky was utterly black, and this darkness persisted all the way until school time.”

我那时必须起床上学感觉就像身处午夜一般,”他阐述道,“天色全然漆黑,而且这种黑暗会一直持续到上学时间。”

He points out that should the United States resolve to make another attempt, the adjustments required would extend far beyond the clocks themselves, necessitating a nationwide reconfiguration of time zones.

他指出倘若美国决意再度尝试所需调整远非时钟本身,全国时区亦需重新规划

The current four time zones are no longer adequatetheir coverage is excessively broad, resulting in disparate sunrise times between the eastern and western extremities within the same zone.

现行四个时区已不敷使用——其覆盖范围过于宽泛导致同一时区内东西部日出时间参差不齐

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