By Tomikka Anderson, San Francisco Chronicle

A bill to scrap daylight-saving time has just made its way through another Senate committee, which means California may be closer to standard time year round.

In an interview with the Sacramento Bee, Assemblymember Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, – who authored the bill – said, “Daylight-saving time is an institution that has been in place largely without a question for more than half a century.” Chu continued, “I think we owe it to the general public to be given the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not daylight saving time ought to be continued.”

Chu also cited statistics in the bill that link daylight-savings time to a higher heart attack rate, traffic accidents and fatalities and energy waste.

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