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The U.S. already started permanent daylight saving time. But it ended in less than a year. Will it work again now?

The U.S. already started permanent daylight saving time. But it ended in less than a year. Will it work again now?

A2๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด โ†’ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

July 16th, 2026

The U.S. already started permanent daylight saving time. But it ended in less than a year. Will it work again now?

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

The US Congress passed a law to change time.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์˜ํšŒ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This law wants to stop changing clocks twice every year.

์ด ๋ฒ•์€ ๋งค๋…„ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ ์‹œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์—†์• ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The House approved this law with many votes.

ํ•˜์›์€ ๋งŽ์€ ํ‘œ์ฐจ๋กœ ์ด ๋ฒ•์„ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

President Donald Trump also said he supports it.

๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๋„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Now we move clocks forward in spring and back to standard time in fall.

์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋ด„์— ์‹œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‹น๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์„์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ๋กœ ๋Œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Last year's AP-NORC poll says only 12% of US adults liked this change.

์ž‘๋…„ AP-NORC ์—ฌ๋ก ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ฑ์ธ์˜ 12%๋งŒ์ด ์ด ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์„ ์ฐฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Almost half were against it.

๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์€ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The United States tried permanent daylight saving time in the 1970s.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ 1970๋…„๋Œ€์— ์˜๊ตฌ ์ผ๊ด‘์ ˆ์•ฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But it did not last even one year.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 1๋…„๋„ ์ฑ„ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In 1973, Congress introduced it as a test period from January 1974 to April 1975.

1973๋…„ ์˜ํšŒ๋Š” 1974๋…„ 1์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 1975๋…„ 4์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ์‹œ๋ฒ” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But the public opposed it, so they ended it in October.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋Œ€์ค‘์ด ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ 10์›”์— ํ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The main worry was that students had to go to school in the dark.

์ฃผ์š” ๊ฑฑ์ •์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋‘  ์†์—์„œ ํ•™๊ต์— ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Kevin Birth, a Queens College anthropology professor, was an elementary school student then.

ํ€ธ์Šค ์นผ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์ธ๋ฅ˜ํ•™ ๊ต์ˆ˜ ์ผ€๋นˆ ๋ฒ„์Šค๋Š” ๋‹น์‹œ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said, "I had to get up for school, and it felt like midnight."

๊ทธ๋Š” "ํ•™๊ต์— ๊ฐ€๋ ค๋ฉด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ž์ • ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This try is different from before.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์‹œ๋„๋Š” ์ด์ „๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

More people work from home and sleep science has improved.

์žฌํƒ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ž๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ๊ณผํ•™์ด ๋ฐœ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine support one time zone.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์˜ํ•™ ํ˜‘ํšŒ์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์˜ํ•™ ์•„์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They stress the importance of daily rhythm.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ผ์ƒ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Professor Birth said we should not just change the clock.

๋ฒ„์Šค ๊ต์ˆ˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ณ„๋งŒ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ”์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said we must also adjust time zones across the country.

์ „๊ตญ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The current four time zones cover too large an area.

ํ˜„์žฌ 4๊ฐœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋„“์€ ์ง€์—ญ์„ ์ปค๋ฒ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So sunrise times are different in the west and east.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์„œ์ชฝ๊ณผ ๋™์ชฝ์˜ ์ผ์ถœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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