CA Will 'Spring Forward,' Despite Vote To Oust The Practice

CALIFORNIA — Next week, Golden Staters lose an hour of 2022 — whether they like it or not.

Californians will turn their clocks forward, despite the 2018 approval of Proposition 7, which would have kept year-round Daylight Saving Time.

It begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 13, which means longer days, dark mornings, and that drowsy week when you body is adjusting to the time change. Spring will arrive on March 20.

The proposition was approved by nearly 60 percent of California voters to end the biannual time switch, according to multiple reports. But the ambitious legislation required a two-thirds vote of the State Senate, which fell by the wayside after the federal government failed to approve the effort in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

California is among the 48 states that — often begrudgingly — observe daylight saving time. Hawaii and Arizona don't observe the practice, although the Navajo Nation in the Grand Canyon State does.

But it's not a popular practice across the country. Americans, by a 63 percent to 16 percent margin, favoring ditching daylight saving time altogether, according to a recent Economic/YouGov poll.

The reasons Daylight Saving Time remains in California are outlined in this video.