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**Christy Strawser** (0:01)
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I'm Christy Strawser. You're listening to Audacy's On Deadline. While most of us are enjoying the nine o'clock sunsets, it wasn't that long ago we were in pitch black at 5 p.m. A congressional move aims to end that, but will it take? Here's KCBS in the Bay Area.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:25)
And this debate seems to resurface every few years. So from your perspective, why has it been so difficult for Congress to reach a consensus?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:32)
Well, it's because there are three different options and we all have some pros and some cons. The current system has a lot of benefits, but we have the problem of having to change the clock that once lose an hour of sleep one day a year.
The alternative of having the light shade every time year round has a lot of problems as well. It's one of the things that's supposed to be proposed in Congress. And the third alternative of having year round standard time, having winter time or summer, has also its problems. So I think that's one of the reasons why I could keep saying controversial.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:08)
Do you weigh in on a favorite?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:11)
Yes, I do. I think having considered in detail all these options, the current system is better than the alternatives. The system of having year round daylight savings, which is what they're talking about in Congress now. We tried that before. So they seem to have forgotten, but of course, it's a long time ago. In 1974, there was an energy crisis, and the US put in year round daylight saving time, which means having daylight saving time in the winter, because we did have it in the summer already. And everybody liked it until it actually happened. And once it happened in the middle of the winter of 1973 to 74, it became very unpopular very quickly. People didn't like getting up in the dark, going to work in the dark, and they particularly didn't like sending their kids to school in the dark, walking on dark city streets or waiting for buses on dark country roads. And it became, in a very short time, very unpopular around the country. And Congress had put in this year round daylight saving time as a temporary measure because of an energy crisis, and they put it in for two years. But it was so unpopular that they actually repealed it after one year, and they didn't even let it go the second year when it would have just automatically terminated. So it was very unpopular when we tried it before. And it makes sunrises very light all over the country.
And in places like San Francisco and New York, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, sunrise would be 830 or so.
In some places like Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Seattle, sunrise would be 9 AM.
And the sun is right at 9 AM, almost everybody getting up in the dark, going to school in the dark, going to work in the dark. And nobody liked it. And so, as I said, it's been tried and it was found to be very unpopular and it was repealed quickly. So I think what might happen this time is a lot of these people that think they're gonna like it and are supporting it right now, when it actually happens, they may not be so happy with it.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:20)
Yeah, well, I guess you're there to remind them, remember when in the 70s.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:24)
That's right, that's right.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:26)
California voters approved Proposition 7 in 2018, allowing the state to adopt permanent daylight saving time at the federal law changes. So it hasn't happened.
Why can't the state simply adopt permanent daylight saving time on its own?

**SPEAKER_3** (3:40)
The current law, which was passed in 1966 and is still the current law, says that each state has two options. They could have year-round standard time, which means never going on daylight saving, or they could have the system that we have now, which is daylight saving time by eight months a year. It does not give the option of having year-round daylight saving time in that law, and that's the current law. So that's why, notice they get two states have chosen out of the 50 Almost every state is chosen to take the current system, but two states have chosen to go on year-round standard time, and those are Hawaii and Arizona, and they both have particular reasons to do that. Hawaii is very in the south, close to the equator, where the sun doesn't change too much.
Arizona is just so hot in the summer that they don't want any extra daylight. But the rest of the people like having daylight saving time in the summer. In fact, that's why year-round standard time, which is one of the alternatives, has a lot of problems as well because a lot of the daylight saving time when it isn't causing very dark mornings, has a lot of benefits by having a nice, beautiful summer evenings, an extra hour every day, and it does in the spring, summer, and fall cut back on energy usage, traffic accidents, crime, and a lot of other things. So it has a lot of benefits, spring, summer, and fall, but in the winter, it has this big negative.