COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) — Clocks are turning back an hour this week for the end of daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Nov. 3, closing the annual period when U.S. clocks “spring forward” an hour in March and “fall back” in November. Yes, this means we get an extra hour of sleep on Sunday when the clock remains in the secondhand position for another hour.
Ohio is among more than a dozen states that have pushed to observe daylight saving permanently. The state’s House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to urge the U.S. Congress to pass the “Sunshine Protection Act,” a bill to transition to perpetual daylight saving nationwide.
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The measure is now under consideration in Ohio’s Senate, where it received a hearing in the General Government Committee in June. Reps. Rodney Creech (R-West Alexandria) and Bob Peterson (R-Sabina), the bill’s primary sponsors, argued the U.S. no longer needs the biannual tradition of changing clocks, pointing to studies that say moving clocks in the spring and fall causes a number of work, school, safety and sleep-related issues.