standard time
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Current federal law does not permit making daylight saving permanent, but it does allow states to opt into permanent standard time — which only Arizona and Hawaii have done.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026
Many see the beginning of standard time as a mild annoyance.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2025
Most carbon removal credits have a standard time frame of 100 years, according to Erica Dorr, who leads the climate team at Riverse, a carbon crediting platform in France.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025
As a refresher: Each year in the United States, we spring forward an hour in March, and then go back to standard time in November.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024
Without the aid of astronomy, accurate boundaries of large tracts of land could not have been defined and standard time would have been impossible.
From The Future of Astronomy by Pickering, Edward Charles
