; Occasionally, disturbing developments that may impinge on Jewish observance can ‘come out of left field,’ with little warning and significant possible consequences. Such was the case last week, when members of the United States Senate passed a bill to make daylight savings time permanent and to abolish the twice-a-year resetting of clocks.An impetus to change the current system may have come from the fact that it is widely unpopular—a November 2019 Associated Press-NORC poll, cited in recent coverage by the New York Times, revealed that 7 in 10 Americans prefer not to switch the clocks back and forth each...