{"id":188703,"date":"2026-04-07T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:55:07","slug":"nyc-council-members-bill-wants-to-end-daylight-saving-time-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188703\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council Member&#8217;s Bill Wants To End Daylight Saving Time: What To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A New York City council member&#8217;s new bill would look to end Daylight Saving Time, and it already has bipartisan support. <\/p>\n<p>Council Member Frank Morano&#8217;s proposed legislation first introduced on March 10 would implement Permanent Standard Time year-round for the state. <\/p>\n<p>The bill would have to be approved by the New York State Legislature who then would petition Congress to pass the measure statewide. <\/p>\n<p>The legislation has gained support by Democratic Council members Chi Osse, Tiffany Caban, Amanda Farias and Althea Stevens. <\/p>\n<p>If passed, New York would become the third state after Arizona and Hawaii to adopted permanent standard time year-round. <\/p>\n<p>Morano in his resolution has said that the biannual practice of \u2018springing forward\u2019 and \u2018falling back\u2019 increases fatigue, disrupts sleep and has been linked to an uptick to a number of health conditions. <\/p>\n<p>Supports of permanent standard time have said it would improve productivity and well-being. <\/p>\n<p>Morano and Osse released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWstFURRwE6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video<\/a> together last week explaining the reason to end Daylight Saving Time.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A New York City council member&#8217;s new bill would look to end Daylight Saving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-188703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}