This is when we turn them back an hour

Maybe it only seems that way to me, but every time you see a piece about turning our clocks back an hour when fall arrives, you also see a picture of an old-fashioned alarm clock with the bells on it, sitting outside inside. a pile of leaves in a forest or forest somewhere.

The photo above is exactly what I mean.

It’s as if at some point during the summer we all decide to throw our clocks out into the wilderness, and then, a few months later, remember what we did and take the clock out of the pile of leaves and bring it back inside to bring. until it’s time to set our clocks forward.

Maybe I’m reading a little too much into the clock-changing visuals.

Everyone really seems to want to stop changing the clocks twice a year, and it seems like we really want the powers that decide these things to just choose once and stick to it.

For all the talk about abolishing the twice-a-year clock change in the United States, lawmakers in this state and across the country just can’t seem to get anything right and get rid of anything that a majority of Illinoisans would like to see. leave once and for all.

There have been several attempts to bring about change, but they have all failed and left us with no choice but to continue the spring forward/backward cycle we are currently trapped in.

In 2022, the U.S. Senate voted and unanimously passed a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent

So why hasn’t anything changed? First, this was done by voice vote and was not taken up by the House of Representatives. Moreover, the current government has not yet really formulated a position on this subject.

Then there is the problem of choosing the wrong method to start keeping time. After the vote in favor of permanent daylight saving time, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine released a statement praising the idea of ​​eliminating time changes but lamenting the fact that the Senate chose the wrong one to keep:

The AASM position statement also indicates that “Current evidence best supports the adoption of year-round standard time, which best suits human circadian biology and offers clear public health and safety benefits.The statement was endorsed by more than two dozen medical, scientific and community organizations, including the American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National PTA, National Safety Council, Society for Research on Biological Rhythms and World Sleep. Society.

While everyone else solves that problem (hopefully within our lifetimes), this is the moment for Illinoisans to turn back the clock

I wanted to give you a little bit of warning time now so that you won’t find yourself having to change your clock later because you keep showing up early to everything.

Before 2005, the clocks had to be turned forward on the first Sunday in April and turned back on the last Sunday in October.

Now we “leap forward” on the second Sunday in March, and “fall back” on the first Sunday in November. So on Saturday, November 2, set your clocks back an hour before calling it a night so you’re all set when the time change happens at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3.