Changing Clocks In Illinois: Here’s When We Spring Forward

I guess the fact that I wrote this and you're reading it shows that we haven't gotten the government to finally put a stop to making us change our clocks twice a year. I've read some encouraging news that a change is coming (hopefully, they'll get it right and go with year-round Standard time, not Daylight Saving Time), but we just don't know when.

A little over one week from now we get to take part in that much-beloved ritual of setting our clocks ahead. In spite of multiple efforts from Illinois state lawmakers over the years, clock-changing hasn't gone the way of the dinosaurs just yet.

If we ever do end up dumping clock-changing as a societal habit, get ready for the gigantic arguments over which is better, standard time or daylight saving time. For now though, you have one job, and that's clock changing.

Illinois Is Among The 48 States That, While Complaining Heavily, Observe Daylight Saving Time

It's pretty crazy that as much as the American public hates the bi-annual clock changing ritual we just keep on doing it. The last polling information I saw on springing ahead and falling back showed that 63 percent of Americans were in favor of stopping the twice-yearly adjustments. 16 percent wanted to keep it. 21 percent apparently needed to give it a lot more thought.

Patch.com:

In Illinois, legislation to provide for year-round daylight saving time passed the Senate in 2019, but failed to make it through the House. Multiple bills — seven, to be exact — were introduced in Illinois last year to either make DST permanent here or exempt Illinois from the federal Uniform Time Act.

Full-time DST is not currently allowed by federal law, and would require an act of Congress to make a change.

Then, there's the argument for permanent Standard time:

Here in Illinois, and throughout the 48 states that observe time change in the United States, daylight saving time lasts for a total of 34 weeks, running from early-to-mid March to the beginning of November in those states that observe it.

Around 10 days from now, daylight saving time will start on Sunday, March 9th, more than a full week before the official start of Spring. Daylight saving time will end on November 2nd.