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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.

美国众议院投票通过了一项法案

The bill makes daylight saving time permanent.

该法案夏令时成为永久时间

Many members voted for it.

很多成员投票支持它

The Senate must still pass it.

参议院还必须通过

Then it can become law.

然后才能成为法律

President Donald Trump says he supports it.

唐纳德·特朗普总统支持

The bill stops the clock change two times a year.

该法案停止了一年两次的时钟调整

A poll last year asked people about the time.

去年一个调查问了人们关于时间的问题

Only 12% of American adults liked the current system.

只有12%美国成年人喜欢现在的系统

Almost half did not like it.

几乎一半的人不喜欢

Some groups want one time.

一些团体想要一个时间

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

他们美国医学会美国睡眠医学学会

America tried permanent daylight saving time before.

美国以前试过永久夏令时

That was in the 1970s.

是在1970年代

Congress passed a law in 1973.

国会在1973年通过了一项法律

It was a trial from January 1974 to April 1975.

是一个试验从1974年1月到1975年4月

It lasted only until October 1974.

只持续到1974年10月

People were very unhappy.

人们非常不开心

So the law ended.

所以法律结束了

A big worry was schoolchildren.

一个大担忧是学童

They would go to school in the dark.

他们在黑暗中上学。

Kevin Birth is a professor at Queens College.

凯文·伯斯皇后学院的教授。

He remembers that time well.

清楚地记得那个时间

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

他说上学时间非常黑”。

Birth said more than clocks must change.

伯斯说不只是时钟要改变

The U.S. has four time zones.

美国四个时区

Sunrise times are very different in each zone.

每个时区的日出时间很不一样

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