Standard Time is for corporations; DST is for people.
One clock, all year, with the extra hour of light where people can use it: after work and school. Patios, picnics, sports and sunsets after work. More sun, less grind.
On Standard Time the sun sets at 4:14 pm, well before most people leave work. Permanent DST keeps the same nine hours of light and moves one of them to the evening, when people are awake to use it.
After 5 pm, permanent DST gives you about 3½ hours of daylight (3 h 25 min). Permanent Standard Time gives you about 2½ (2 h 25 min) and spends the extra hour at 4:07 am, while nearly everyone is asleep.
And only 12% of adults support switching the clocks twice a year. Most people want the switch gone, and more of them want to keep the evening light.
AP-NORC poll of 1,289 US adults, Oct 9–13, 2025, margin of error ±3.8 points. (AP-NORC)
Every point below comes from published research. Follow the links and check our work.
More people are on the road in the evening than at dawn. Researchers estimated that year-round DST from 1987 to 1991 would have meant 901 fewer fatal crashes in the US, 727 of them involving pedestrians.
Ferguson et al., American Journal of Public Health, 1995
Deer collisions peak when commutes overlap with dusk. A study of over a million crashes found permanent DST would prevent about 36,550 deer deaths, 33 human deaths, 2,054 injuries and $1.19 billion in costs every year.
Cunningham & Prugh, Current Biology, 2022
When DST started each spring, robberies fell 27% in the evening hour that gained light, and 7% across the whole day.
Doleac & Sanders, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015
In the 30 days after DST ended, card spending per person in Los Angeles fell 3.5% compared with Phoenix, which never changes its clocks. Light after work brings people out to shop and eat.
A study of 23,000 children in nine countries found they were 15 to 20% more active on days with late sunsets than on days when the sun set before 5 pm, even after adjusting for weather.
Goodman et al., International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2014
Fatal car crashes jump 6% in the week after clocks spring forward, about 28 extra deaths a year in the US. Lock the clock on DST and that switch never happens again.
Fritz et al., Current Biology, 2020
Time is a social agreement. The clock is just a label. If winter mornings feel too dark, we can change when school and work start. We don't have to take light away from everyone's evening.
Districts start different ages at different times so buses can run several routes each morning. Start times are already a scheduling choice, not a law of nature.
California requires high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 am and middle schools no earlier than 8:00 am, since the 2022–23 school year. Rural districts are exempt. (CBS News)
Sunrise on the same clock can differ by more than an hour between the east and west edges of a time zone. A school can set winter hours that fit its own sunrise instead of the whole country losing its evenings.
Nineteen US states have already passed laws for permanent DST. They can't take effect until Congress allows it. Hawaii and most of Arizona stay on standard time either way.
The province of Ontario passed its Time Amendment Act unanimously. It only takes effect once Quebec and New York State make the same move. (Global News)
It passed unanimously, then stalled in the House.
The bill would make DST permanent nationwide and end the twice-a-year switch. The President backs it. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The bill needs 60 Senate votes. As of the latest reports no vote had been scheduled. Unless the Senate passes it and the President signs it before November 1, 2026, clocks fall back again. (FOX 5, FOX 2)
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Unlike some groups pushing for Standard Time, we're not a nonprofit, we're not a 501(c)(4), and we don't take donations. There's no fundraising list and no membership fee.
We just think the extra hour of light belongs in the evening, when people can enjoy it with family and friends instead of spending it at a desk.