Fall back: the latest on daylight saving time in Arkansas

Yup, that is that weekend — the one many despise as a result of it will get darkish earlier.

• And the one some individuals love as a result of they get an additional hour of sleep.

Driving the information: Daylight saving time ends at 2am on Sunday, Nov. 6, when our cellphone clocks robotically fall again an hour and the espresso pot timer is abruptly fallacious.

The massive image: One 2020 research led by Colorado sleep researchers says there are extra visitors accidents following the swap to sunlight saving time. One other estimates pedestrian and automobile fatalities can be diminished — by almost 400 individuals a yr — if we stored daylight saving time completely.

• In the meantime, a biology professor on the College of Washington says customary time aligns extra carefully with the physique’s circadian rhythms.

Flashback: A federal invoice, the Sunshine Safety Act, to make daylight saving time everlasting cleared the U.S. Senate in March, however stalled within the U.S. Home.

• Federal regulation says states can transfer to plain time, however will need to have the approval of Congress to undertake year-round daylight saving time.

Zoom in: Arkansas lawmakers appear as confused on the topic as a sleepy toddler informed to get away from bed Monday morning. They’ve launched competing payments through the years:

Zoom out: Certainly one of Axios’ reporters in Phoenix, Jeremy Duda, offered us with this angle: “Arizonans are fiercely happy with our refusal to participate in daylight saving time.”

The underside line: Nothing has modified. We’ll maintain doing this twice a yr till lawmakers determine in any other case.

Value’s thought bubble: We’re so polarized, we won’t even agree on what time it’s.

• Nonetheless, I am pulling for extra sunlight hours.