While it’s time to set our clocks one hour forward this weekend to begin Daylight Saving Time, there has been movement in the Iowa legislature and in the U.S. Congress to do away with the standard.

District 42 State Senator Jeff Reichman (R) is the floor manager for Senate File 335 which establishes Daylight Saving Time as the official time in Iowa throughout the year. Reichman mentions that the bill would take effect when all of Iowa’s contiguous states pass similar legislation by 2031, “And then we added the amendment of course to give other states the opportunity to come on board with it, which makes it more feasible. To have one state, I think there’s a lot of problems that go along with that. We all have stories about, I had heard several stories about people missing appointments, missing weddings and different things as they crossed over the timeline back and forth. And everybody’s impacted twice a year by springing forward and falling back, so there’s already movement in Illinois and we hope to see those other states move along with this as well.”

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have also recently reintroduced the “Sunshine Protection Act of 2021” which would also make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Regardless, Iowans still need to spring their clocks one hour forward at 2 a.m. Sunday, and clocks will fall back on November 7th.