Will California change time?

The Golden State could get even more sunshine on the winter evenings after California voters backed a proposal that could make it permanent.

Proposal 7, written on the ballot for Tuesday's midterm elections, asked voters in California whether they agreed to stop changing clock twice a year or not. . Just two days earlier, the state had returned to normal, when California, along with most Americans, had gained an hour of sunshine in the morning but had lost one in the evening.

With over 3 million votes counted, about 60.3% of voters voted yes, while 39.7% of people opposed the proposal, according to DesertSun.com.

An elector goes to a polling station in California's 25th Congressional District in Agua Dulce, California on November 6th. The inhabitants of Golden State voted in favor of the end of the changes of the hour. Mario Tama / Getty Images

The Time of Day Act came into effect in 1949 in the United States, requiring clocks to be shifted by one hour each spring and fall by one hour each fall.

Democratic representative Kansen Chu of San Jose introduced the proposal, arguing that weather changes are dangerous. Heart attacks and car accidents increase when people lose an hour of sleep by offering their clock every March, he told The Associated Press, citing a 2009 study by Michigan State University.

"It's a public safety measure and I do not know anyone who really likes to make this adjustment to his schedule twice a year," he said.

He argued that maintaining daylight saving time would mean that children could spend more time out late in the afternoon in the winter and that people would go out for dinner more during those months, which would help businesses.

However, any change still requires the support of a two-thirds majority in Congress, as well as an amendment to the federal law.

Summer time all year long means that the sun will only rise at 8am, some winter months in California. Democratic Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, who represents Ventura County, told AP that it could result in more accidents during daily commutes.

"I simply do not share this belief that it is a major crisis," she said.

Republican Senator Jim Nielsen said in June: "He is repairing something that is not broken. Our company is acculturated in the late hour. I think it would be too confusing to change it again ", The Mercury News reported.

Hawaii and Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) do not recognize the summer time. In March, Florida became the first state to approve Daylight Saving Time, but the move still requires congressional approval.