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America tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than one year. Can it work now?

America tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than one year. Can it work now?

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July 16th, 2026

America tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than one year. Can it work now?

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill.

美國眾議院投票通過一個法案

The bill makes daylight saving time permanent.

這個法案夏令時間變成永久

Many members voted for it.

很多議員投票支持

The Senate must still pass it.

參議院還必須通過

Then it can become law.

然後才能變成法律

President Donald Trump says he supports it.

唐納·川普總統支持

The bill stops the clock change two times a year.

這個法案停止一年兩次時鐘調整

A poll last year asked people about the time.

去年一個民調人們關於時間的事

Only 12% of American adults liked the current system.

只有百分之十二的美國成年人喜歡現在的系統

Almost half did not like it.

幾乎一半的人不喜歡

Some groups want one time.

一些團體想要一個時間

They are the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

它們美國醫學會美國睡眠醫學會

America tried permanent daylight saving time before.

美國以前試過永久的夏令時間

That was in the 1970s.

在1970年代

Congress passed a law in 1973.

國會在1973年通過了一項法律

It was a trial from January 1974 to April 1975.

是一項試驗從1974年1月到1975年4月

It lasted only until October 1974.

持續到1974年10月。

People were very unhappy.

人們非常不開心

So the law ended.

所以這項法律結束了

A big worry was schoolchildren.

一個很大的擔心學童

They would go to school in the dark.

他們在黑暗中上學。

Kevin Birth is a professor at Queens College.

凱文·伯斯皇后學院的一位教授。

He remembers that time well.

記得那個時候

He said it was "pitch black" during the school day.

他說上學時間一片漆黑」。

Birth said more than clocks must change.

伯斯說改變的不只是時鐘

The U.S. has four time zones.

美國四個時區

Sunrise times are very different in each zone.

每個時區的日出時間很不一樣

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