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California voters will decide on whether or not to keep Daylight Saving Time in November after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill last week, sending the proposal to this year’s statewide ballot.
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Along with deciding on whether or not to break the state into three separate entities, California voters will also go into the polls this November and decide on an initiative that would undo the Daylight Saving Time Act.
Authored by Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, AB 807 would overturn the Daylight Saving Act that California voters passed in 1949, keeping the state on a year-round clock.
Calling the practice of changing the clocks twice a year “outdated,” Chu argued that Daylight Saving Time actually has adverse effects that many people do not realize.
“We started this practice to conserve energy during wartime, but studies show that this is no longer the case,” Chu said. “We are no longer saving energy, and studies have shown this practice increases risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and crimes.”
But opponents of the change have argued that it throws California businesses even more out of sync with those on the east coast, hurting tourism and adversely affecting farmers.
“It’s fixing something that is not broken,” said Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Sacramento. “Our society has acculturated itself to Daylight Saving Time. I think it would create too much confusion to change it again.”
This is not the first time California legislatures have attempted to reverse Daylight Saving Time. A similar bill was proposed in 2016, but was killed on the Senate floor.
However, even if it is adopted this time around, AB 807 would not immediately go into effect as it would take an act of Congress to make Pacific Standard time permanent in California.
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It’s unclear as to whether the proposal is to “undo the Daylight Saving Time Act” which would keep us on standard time year round; or “to make Daylight Saving Time permanent in California” which would keep us on Daylight Saving Time year round. Either way we would be out of sync with most of the country part of the year since all but a few pockets (most notably AZ) will continue to observe DST.