Texas Is One Step Closer To Permanent Daylight Saving Time

For some reason, there has been a big debate and discussion taking place over daylight saving time in Texas lately. So much so that there was a bill proposed to the Texas House to observe daylight saving time all the time.

Now, there isn't really a precedent for this, but federal law states you can observe standard time year-round if you want. Observing daylight saving time is a totally different story. Leave it to Texas to be the outlier here, right?

We observe daylight saving time from March to November, the proverbial "spring forward". When this is the case, it stays lighter outside later into the evening giving us more sun to do things at night.

Not a terrible thing right, but it can mess with sleep for sure. I know it's a lot harder to get our toddler down the longer that sun stays up in the sky.

Dr. Vincent Mysliwiec, a professor of research and director of sleep medicine at UT Health San Antonio disagrees with the idea of staying on daylight saving time permanently though. He says it "does not align with the human biologic clock," and that could be a huge problem for all of us.

Dr. Sudha Tallavajhula, a Houston-based neurologist, kind of backed this up by saying this is the worst of all three ideas, the others being flipping back and forth like we do now, and staying on standard time permanently.

Well, we're about to find out if they're right, because we are officially one step closer to it happening. The bill has passed through the Texas House of Representatives and it's now on to the Texas Senate.

Should it pass through there, it heads to the Governor for a final decision and sign-off. The fact that it's through one step cleanly makes me wonder if the Texas Senate feels the same about it.

Truthfully, I don't mind having daylight a bit longer through the entire year, but who am I to mess with medical professionals? Stay tuned, because we could make some history.