Spring forward. Fall back. Spring forward. Fall back.
We Californians voted to adopt daylight savings time during the Truman
administration and we've been remembering or forgetting to reset our
clocks ever since. Now we're gonna get a chance to change that.
Well, sort of. I'm Ricardo Cano, K-12 education reporter for CALmatters and
this is Proposition 7 in under a minute.
The twice a year time change can be annoying, especially in March. Pity anyone who's
shown up an hour late to a big event or had to coax their groggy kids out of bed
for school. Changing clocks and the sleep deprivation that results doesn't
actually save energy, but research suggests it does lead to more heart
attacks, strokes and traffic accidents. Enter Prop. 7 which holds out the promise
of daylight savings time forever but it's not that simple. The measure would
give the legislature permission to end the clock switching and encourage
lawmakers to adopt year-round daylight savings, but that would require a
two-thirds vote of the legislature, the governor's signature and approval by
Congress and the president. Opponents predict a dark side to year-round
daylight savings time: it would drive up the cost of business by putting
California out of sync with 47 other states and during winter, send children off to
school in the dark. So vote yes if you want more light later in the day
year-round. Vote no if you want to keep springing
forward and falling back. Learn more about this proposition and others by
visiting our in-depth elections guide at calmatters.org