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The US tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could it work now?

The US tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could it work now?

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July 16th, 2026

The US tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could 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.

许多议员投票支持它

The Senate must still pass the bill.

参议院还必须通过该法案

Then it can become law.

然后才能成为法律

President Donald Trump said he supports it.

唐纳德·特朗普总统支持

The bill would stop changing clocks twice a year.

该法案将停止每年调两次时钟。

That happens in spring and fall.

发生在春天和秋天

An AP-NORC poll last year found a result.

去年AP-NORC的一项民意调查发现了一个结果

Only 12% of American adults liked the current system.

只有12%的美国成年人喜欢现在的系统

Almost half of them did not like it.

几乎一半的人不喜欢

Some groups want one time all year.

一些团体希望全年只有一个时间

These groups include the American Medical Association.

这些团体包括美国医学会

They also include the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

它们还包括美国睡眠医学学会

America tried permanent daylight saving time before.

美国以前试过永久夏令时

That was in the 1970s.

在1970年代

Congress passed a law in 1973.

国会在1973年通过了一项法律

The trial was from January 1974 to April 1975.

试验从1974年1月到1975年4月

But it lasted only until October 1974.

只持续到1974年10月

People were very unhappy.

人们非常不高兴

So the law was ended.

所以法律被终止了

A big worry was about schoolchildren.

一个大的担忧是关于学童

They would have to 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 the experience well.

清楚地记得那次经历

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

他说上学时一片漆黑”。

Birth said clocks are not the only thing to change.

伯斯说要改变不只是时钟

The U.S. has four time zones now.

美国现在四个时区

Sunrise times are very different in each zone.

每个时区的日出时间很不一样

So the zones would need changes.

所以时区需要调整

July 16th, 2026

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