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Mar 9, 2019 2 min

Will Oregon stop using daylight saving time in 2021?

from ESOL News Oregon Hosted by Eric Dodson

ESOL News Oregon, by Timothy Krause Text of article: (FEBRUARY 16, 2019) We change our clocks every spring. We move them one hour forward. We call this daylight saving time. It begins March 10. We move them one hour backward in the fall. This is called standard time. Many countries in the world change their clocks. Most of the United States does this. Only Arizona and Hawaii do not. Some lawmakers in Oregon want our state to stop using daylight saving time. Kim Thatcher is a state senator. Bill Post is a state representative. They are both from Keizer. They work in the state government in Salem. Thatcher and Post are introducing a new law. They want Oregon to stop using daylight saving time. They want the state to stay on daylight saving time beginning November 7, 2021. This is the process: First, the state senators and representatives have to agree. Then the voters of Oregon must approve the change. Finally, the U.S. Congress in Washington, DC must also approve. Some people use an old phrase to remember what to do: Spring forward; fall back. "Spring" means both the season of the year and the verb to jump ahead suddenly. "Fall" means both the season and the verb to drop behind. Read by Eric Dodson. CC BY-NC-SA. From ESOL News Oregon by Timothy Krause. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. https://sites.google.com/pcc.edu/esolnewsoregon Music by Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Six - http://www.chriszabriskie.com - Creative Commons BY License

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