STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Some New Yorkers cherish the hours of daylight saving time and would like to see it become permanent. Still, others would prefer to abandon the whole idea entirely.

New Yorkers, along with residents of most US states, will turn their clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3. At that point we will “fall back” to standard time.

As we leave daylight saving time, it will seem like we are losing an hour of daylight every day.

The system of uniform daylight saving time in the United States was established by the Uniform Time Act of 1966. And while not every state is participating, New York is for now.

During the fall 2023 legislative session, lawmakers introduced a pair of bills in the New York State Assembly and Senate to make daylight saving time permanent.

However, both bills remained stuck in committee and no vote took place. So neither has become law.

The bill passed the Senate in March 2022, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, author of the bill, reintroduced the bill in March 2023 with bipartisan support. But the House never voted on it because more pressing matters were at hand.

Directing the load

Those leading the charge in New York are Senator Joe Griffo of Rome State, and Senator Angelo L. Santabarbara of Schenectady.

Griffo told Advance/SILive.com that people are overwhelmingly telling him, “Let’s stop jumping forward and falling back.” It is a bipartisan issue, he said, and there are ongoing efforts to build coalitions in favor of the transition to permanent cooperation. Daylight saving time.

“My hope is that more states will continue to do this,” Griffo said, pointing to calls of support he has received in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, and his desire to draw the federal government’s attention Pull.

“We hope we get their attention, and the federal government will see it that way soon,” he said.

The reason for the support is consistency, Griffo said. “They want only one time element to be used,” he added. “The preference seems to be overwhelmingly for daylight saving time, and studies seem to show how that is more beneficial.”

For the time being, the switching continues.

We turned the clocks forward on March 10, ushering in Daylight Savings Time 2024, and we will turn the clocks back again on November 3.

Benefits mentioned

Rubio and other advocates of a permanent switch to daylight saving time have argued that the practice of changing the clocks is outdated. They say that “locking the clock” for daylight saving time will result in better sleep for everyone, especially new parents – because babies’ internal clocks don’t change.

Many others say turning back the clocks in the fall deprives us of precious sunlight during the darkest time of the year, making winter days even shorter at a time when depression and anxiety are at their peak.

Some say a change to permanent daylight saving time will help the agriculture industry.

Tourism will also benefit, Griffo said, as there will be more shopping and dining on longer days.

Still, those who would like to see a permanent end to daylight saving time argue that a permanent change to standard time better aligns with the natural circadian cycle, which promotes health and safety.

For now, daylight saving time, sometimes incorrectly referred to as the plural daylight saving time, ends on November 3 and New Yorkers are expected to “revert” to standard time.