Statewide Iowa — This will be the Sunday to “spring ahead” for Daylight Saving Time and a legislator who’s a vocal critic of flipping the clock twice a year has won another round of voting in the Iowa House.
For this year’s effort, Representative Mike Sexton of Rockwell City started out by reading passages from a medical journal.
Sexton’s bill to stay on Daylight Saving Time passed the House 82-13, but the move can only happen if Congress votes to allow it. Nineteen other states have passed similar bills. Sexton has been trying for the past few years to get a bill on the topic through the Iowa legislature.
Time in the United States was generally measured by the position of the sun or a prominent clock in a community until 1883. That’s when the railroads introduced “Standard Time” to keep time consistent in zones of the country. Daylight Saving Time was implemented during World War I as a way to conserve fuel.
