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"The United States' Perpetual Daylight Saving Time Experiment: Aborted in Under a Year. Will a Second Attempt Succeed?"

"The United States' Perpetual Daylight Saving Time Experiment: Aborted in Under a Year. Will a Second Attempt Succeed?"

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July 16th, 2026

"The United States' Perpetual Daylight Saving Time Experiment: Aborted in Under a Year. Will a Second Attempt Succeed?"

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The season for that idea to blossom may, as it were, have come round once more.

その着想開花する時節は、いわば再び巡り来たのかもしれない

The biannual clock changes in the United States harbour the potential to become a relic of the past should the bill currently under deliberation in Congress, which seeks to introduce permanent daylight saving time, be passed.

米国で年に2回実施される時計の変更は、現在連邦議会で審議中の恒久的な夏時間を導入する法案が可決されれば、過去の遺物と化す可能性を秘めている

Nevertheless, even if there are those who find the back-and-forth of spring and autumn time changes irksome, the notion of fixing a single time zone is not necessarily met with widespread approbation.

しかしながら春と秋の時間変更の往復を煩わしく感じる人々が存在するとしても単一の時間帯に固定することが必ずしも広く支持されるとは限らない。

The United States has previously experimented with this endeavour, most recently in the 1970s, yet it proved to be bereft of durability.

アメリカ合衆国は過去にこの試みを経験しており、最も直近では1970年代に実施されたが、それは持続性を欠いたのである

The present era constitutes an entirely novel epoch, wherein even those who had never previously engaged in remote work have come to adopt it, and advances in sleep science are progressively unveiling an increasingly nuanced and intricate reality.

現代全く新たな時代でありかつて在宅勤務を全く行っていなかった人々までもが在宅勤務を実践するに至り睡眠科学の進歩によってより一層微妙で複雑な実態明らかになりつつある

Will this temporal adjustment ultimately culminate in success, one wonders?

今回の時間的変更が、果たして成功裡に終わるものであろうか

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill, by an overwhelming majority, that would permanently enshrine the transition to daylight saving time, advancing the clocks by one hour.

火曜日下院圧倒的多数の賛成をもって時計を1時間進める夏時間への移行恒久化する法案可決した

Currently, the transition to daylight saving time is implemented in spring and reverted to standard time in autumn, adopted as a method to extend daylight hours during summer evenings.

現在夏時間への移行春季に実施され秋季に標準時へと復帰することで夏季の夕刻における日照時間を延長する手法として採用されている

However, support for these biannual changes is scant; according to last year's AP-NORC poll, merely 12% of American adults were in favor, while approximately half expressed opposition.

しかしながらこの年二回の変更に対する支持乏しく昨年度のAP-NORC世論調査によれば米国成人の僅か12%が賛成し約半数が反対の立場を示した

Organizations advocating for a single time system include the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, for whom the preservation of circadian rhythms constitutes a matter of paramount importance.

単一の時間制度を支持する組織には、米国医師会や米国睡眠医学会が含まれておりこれらの団体にとって生体リズムの維持極めて重要な課題である

Following its passage through the Senate, the bill is set to be formally enacted into law upon the President's signature.

上院における可決を経た後大統領の署名をもって法律として正式に成立する運びとなる

President Donald Trump has unequivocally and resolutely articulated his intention to support this matter.

ドナルド・トランプ大統領は、本件に対する支持の意向明確かつ断固として表明している。

Such a simplistic solution is utterly insufficient.

そのような単純な解決策では到底事足りない

While people may tend to resist change, as history unequivocally demonstrates, they are by no means content with a further reduction of morning light during winter, when daylight hours are already shorter than in summer.

人々は変革を忌避する傾向にあるかもしれないが歴史が如実に示す通り冬季の日照時間が夏季より短い状況下で朝の光がさらに減少することに対しても、人々は決して満足しないのである

In 1973, Congress passed legislation instituting permanent daylight saving time, initially designated as a trial period from January 1974 to April 1975, yet it was extended until October of that year before being repealed in the face of vehement public protest.

1973年議会恒久的な夏時間導入する法律可決し1974年1月から1975年4月まで試験期間とされたが、実際には同年10月まで継続した後、国民の激しい抗議受けて廃止された

Among the principal concerns cited was the predicament of schoolchildren being compelled to commute to school in darkness.

懸念事項の一つとして学童暗闇の中で登校せざるを得ないという点が挙げられていた。

Presently, school start times exhibit a gradual trend toward deferment.

現在では学校の始業時間漸次遅延化の傾向にある。

Kevin Birth, a professor of anthropology at Queens University who studies cultural conceptions of time, was attending elementary school in Syracuse, New York at the time, and he vividly recalls the experience.

クイーンズ大学人類学教授であり、時間に関する文化的概念研究しているケビン・バース氏は、当時ニューヨーク州シラキュース小学校に通学しておりその経験鮮明に記憶している

"I had to go to school, but it felt as though it were the dead of night," he reminisces.

学校に登校しなければならなかったあたかも真夜中の如き感覚であった」と彼は述懐する

"The pitch-black darkness persisted until the start of the school day."

漆黒の闇が、授業時間の開始まで持続したのである。」

He contends that should America attempt it anew, it would be compelled to undertake not merely a change of clocks but a far more sweeping transformation.

彼が言うにはもしアメリカが再び試みるならば時計のみならずより広範な変革を余儀なくされるだろうという。

The nation's time zones, too, would need to be adapted accordingly.

全米のタイムゾーンもまたそれに適応させる必要がある。

The current four zones are inadequate, for the vastness of each zone's jurisdiction engenders discrepancies in sunrise times between its western and eastern extremities.

現行の四つのゾーンでは不十分であり各ゾーンの管轄範囲が広大であるがゆえにゾーン内の西部と東部では日の出時刻に差異が生じるからである。

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