Endorsements of Permanent Standard Time
as the Best Year‑Round Clock
The following endorse permanent Standard Time (natural time), not permanent Daylight Saving Time (fast time), as the best way to end clock change.
Join the list! Organizations, doctors, and other notable individuals, please submit your names to our online form, or email info@savestandardtime.com.
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Health
- Alabama Board of Medical Examiners & Medical Licensure Commission
- Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy
- American Academy of Cardiovascular Sleep Medicine
- American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine
- American Academy of Neurology
- American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- American Association of Public Health Physicians
- American Association of Sleep Technologists
- American College of Chest Physicians
- American College of Lifestyle Medicine
- American Medical Association
- American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
- American Thoracic Society
- California Medical Association
- California Sleep Society
- Canadian Sleep Society
- Canadian Society for Chronobiology
- Capitol Neurology
- Dakota Sleep Society
- Hampden District Medical Society
- Indiana State Medical Association
- Kentucky Sleep Society
- Kimmey Lab
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Michigan Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Missouri Sleep Society
- Montana Sleep Society
- National Sleep Foundation
- Northwest Noggin Neuroscience
- Rhode Island Medical Society
- San Diego Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- San Diego Psychiatric Society
- Sleep Research Society
- Society for Light Treatment & Biological Rhythms
- Society for Research on Biological Rhythms
- Society of Anesthesia & Sleep Medicine
- Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine
- Southern Sleep Society
- Tennessee Sleep Society
- Wisconsin Sleep Society
- World Sleep Society
Education & Families
- Anne Arundel County Public Schools
- Colorado Parent–Teacher Association
- Florida Parent–Teacher Association
- League of Women Voters of Delaware County
- Maryland Association of Boards of Education
- National Parent–Teacher Association
- Regional Adolescent Sleep Needs Coalition
- Start School Later
Safety & Labor
- American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
- Association of Canadian Ergonomists
- B-Society
- Daylight Academy
- Good Light Group
- National Safety Council
- Solaris Fatigue Management
- USA Weather, Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas
News Editorial Boards
- Bloomberg Opinion
- The Daytona Beach News–Journal
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
- The Oregonian
- Orlando Sentinel
- South Florida Sun Sentinel
General
- Adath Israel San Francisco
- Agudath Israel of America
- Agudath Israel of California
- Agudath Israel of Chicago
- Agudath Israel of Florida
- Agudath Israel of Maryland
- California Islamic University
- Campaign to Opt Out of Daylight Saving Time in Texas
- Coalition for Permanent Standard Time
- Cuyahoga Astronomical Association
- Gulf Coast Fabrion
- International Alliance for Natural Time
- Ohio Bicycle Federation
- Rabbinical Council of America
- Rabbinical Council of California
- Stephens Memorial Observatory
- Working Time Society
- Yes Watch
Organizations Outside North America
- Angle-Saxish Kingdom
- Association Against Summer Time
- Association for the Return to the Meridian Hour
- Australasian Chronobiology Society
- Better Times Platform
- BetterTimes
- Chronobiology Lab Groningen
- Curtis Clock Lab
- Dutch Society for Sleep–Wake Research
- European Biological Rhythms Society
- European Sleep Research Society
- Francophone Chronobiology Society
- French Society for Sleep Research & Medicine
- German Society for Time Policy
- German Teachers’ Association
- Gnomonicae Societas Austriaca
- Government of Catalonia Advisory Council for Timetable Reform
- Healthy Time!
- Initiative to Abolish the Time Change
- Live in Normal Time
- National Commission for the Rationalization of Spanish Hours
- Natural Time for Kazakhstan!
- No Daylight Saving
- Normal Time All the Time
- Portuguese Sleep Association
- Saratov for a Healthy Time
- Sleep Medicine Association Netherlands
- Solar Time Initiative
- Spanish Sleep Society
- Standaardtijd
- Time Use Initiative
- Turning Point
- Volga Region: Moscow Time! UTC+3
Doctors
- Raúl Aguilar-Roblero MD PhD, Laboratory on Circadian Rhythmicity, Institute of Cellular Physiology, Mexico
- Salman Ahsan PhD, San Jose, California
- Shimon Amir PhD, Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
- Sonia Ancoli Israel PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Michael Antle PhD, Professor, Hotchkiss Brain Institute & University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Alberta
- Susanna Barry PsyD, Clinical Psychologist & Sleep Coach, Medford, Massachusetts
- Mariah Baughn MD, San Diego, California
- William Bechtel PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Mikhail Borisenkov PhD, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Joseph Boyd PhD, Research Scientist, MilliporeSigma, Temecula, California
- Maja J Buj MD, Psychiatrist & Researcher, New York, New York
- Hugo Calligaro PhD, San Diego, California
- Oscar Castanon-Cervantes PhD, Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
- Jonathan Charest PhD, Director of Athlete Sleep Services & Behavioral Sleep Medicine Specialist, Calgary, Alberta
- Archana G Chavan PhD, University of California, Merced, Merced, California
- Joanna C Chiu PhD, Vice Chair, Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
- Scott Cookson PhD, Quantitative BioSciences, San Diego, California
- Steven M Croft MD FAAN, Neurologist, Houston, Texas
- Richard E Cytowic MD, Washington, DC
- Konstantin V Danilenko MD PhD, Institute of Physiology & Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Joseph De Konick PhD, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada & Professor Emeritus, Ottawa, Ontario
- Jason DeBruyne PhD, Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
- Grant Denn PhD, Physics Department Chair, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado
- Jaime K Devine PhD, Associate Scientist, Operational Fatigue & Performance, Baltimore, Maryland
- Mona Ezzat MD, San Diego, California
- Heinz Freisling MSc PhD, Epidemiologist, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Frederic Gachon PhD, Group Leader, Physiology of Circadian Rhythms, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
- Karen L Gamble PhD, Professor, The University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
- Susan S Golden PhD, Director, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Cathy Goldstein MD MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Marijke CM Gordijn MS PhD, Chrono@Work, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- John F Gottlieb MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Chicago, Illinois
- Bill Griesar PhD, Northwest Noggin Neuroscience Outreach Group, Portland, Oregon
- Chelsea Gustafson PhD, Professor, Portland, Oregon
- Stacey Harmer PhD, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
- Liz Harrison PhD, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Dietrich Henckel PhD, Professor, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- Erik Herzog PhD, Professor of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri
- Myriam Juda PhD, Researcher, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Royan Kamyar MD, Physician, La Mesa, California
- Thomas Kantermann PhD, Institute for Labour & Personnel, FOM University of Applied Science, Essen, Germany
- Paul Kelley PhD, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
- Elizabeth B Klerman MD PhD, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alison Kole MD MPH FCCP FAASM, New Jersey
- Achim Kramer PhD, Professor of Chronobiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Camilla Kring PhD, Speaker, Author, & Entrepreneur, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jack Kruse DMD MD, Neurosurgeon, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Michael T Lam MD PhD, San Diego, California
- Katja Lamia PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Irving Lebovics DDS, Los Angeles, California
- Andy LiWang PhD, University of California, Merced, Merced, California
- Travis Longcore PhD, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- Beth Malow MD MS, Medical Doctor & Researcher, Brentwood, Tennessee
- Emily Manoogian PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, San Diego, California
- Peter Mansbach PhD, Bethesda, Maryland
- Erik Maronde PhD, Scientist, Frankfurt, Germany
- Michael McCarthy MD PhD, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Melody T McCloud MD, Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Atlanta, Georgia
- Lindsay McCullough MD, Chicago, Illinois
- Girish Melkani MS PhD, Associated Research Professor, San Diego, California
- Martha Merrow PhD, Professor of Chronobiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
- Matt Metzgar PhD, Clinical Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Ralph Mistlberger PhD, Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Thomas E Nordahl MD PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
- João Nunes PhD, Biochemistry Researcher, Dresden, Germany
- Marie Pariollaud PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California
- Ketema Paul PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- Linda Petzold PhD, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
- Frank Powell PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Kendall Satterfield PhD, San Diego, California
- Dorothy D Sears PhD, San Diego, California
- Lori L Shemek PhD, Health Expert & Bestselling Author, Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas
- Abhinav Singh MD MPH FAASM, Sleep Physician, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Benjamin Smarr PhD, Professor of Bioengineering & Data Science, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Andrea Smit PhD, Researcher, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Barbara Sorg PhD, Legacy Research Institute, Portland, Oregon
- Andrew Spector MD, Durham, North Carolina
- Heather R Spence PhD, Marine Biologist and Behavioral Neuroscientist, Arlington, Virginia
- Melissa A St Hilaire PhD, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Andrew Steele PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California
- Tessa Sugarbaker MD MFT, San Francisco, California
- Joseph S Takahashi PhD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, Texas
- Jennifer Thomas PhD, Professor, San Diego, California
- Gianluca Tosini PhD, Chief Scientific Research Officer, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
- Roger Tseng PhD, Biological Scientist, USDA, Ames, Iowa
- Judy Village PhD CCCPE, President, Association of Canadian Ergonomists, British Columbia, British Columbia
- Nathaniel F Watson MD MSc, Washington
- David K Welsh MD PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Daniel S Whittaker PhD, Los Angeles, California
- W Chris Winter MD FAASM DABSM DABPN, Sleep Medicine Specialist & Neurologist, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Anna Wirz-Justice PhD, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Amir Zarrinpar MD PhD, Assistant Professor, San Diego, California
- Wen Zhang PhD, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Ying Zhang PhD, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Irving Zucker PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Other Notable Individuals
- Lisa Alexia PA-C, Physician Assistant, Alaska
- Matthew Anderson JD, Medford, Oregon
- Alexandra S Devin LCAT RDT, Creative Arts Psychotherapy & Life Coaching, Beacon, New York
- Keith Eichner CWO, Contract Weather Observer, Western New York
- Beverly Feldman RN MSN, Houston, Texas
- Monte Kay Frederick RN, Texas
- Lisa L Heschong MArch, Writer & Researcher, Santa Cruz, California
- Matthew Horsnell, Sleep Ambassador & Patient Advocate, Nashville, Tennessee
- Janet Huff LPC, Shreveport, Louisiana
- Betty C Jung MPH RN MCHES, Connecticut
- Gayle Kahn Friedman LCSW, Studio City, California
- Aleta March RPSGT, Polysomnography Technology Supervisor, Pilot Hill, California
- Lynn McGovern MSc, Ireland
- Angela Miller MA BSEd, Department Chair, Ozarks Technical Community College, Springfield, Missouri
- Fabian Mohedano, President of Catalan Council for Vocational Training, Former Member of Parliament, Barcelona, Spain
- Prof Kurt Niel, Grieskirchen, Austria
- Peter Varfalvy MSc, Quebec
- Jennifer Viau CNA, Nursing Student, Washington
- Elizabeth Wellburn MA, Author & Childcare Consultant, Victoria, British Columbia
- Ellen Wermter NP DBSM, Virginia