Save Standard Time

A volunteer-run nonprofit, begun in 2019 as an online and letter-writing campaign by Jay Pea in Arizona, that campaigns across the US and Canada for permanent standard time and against permanent daylight saving time bills. It briefs lawmakers and journalists, offers tools to contact legislators and write op-eds, drafts model bills, and produced a 12-part video series, The Science of Clock Change, with sleep scientists.

Years: 2019–now
Country: Canada United States
Topic: Sleep
Asks people to: Support a policy
Strategy: Trusted messenger
Channel: Events Social (organic)Website
Audience: General public Journalists
State, provincial and federal legislators; journalists; the public

Evidence

Self-reportedUnknown

The group says its work is reducing permanent DST bills and increasing permanent standard time bills, with no numbers given. It received the AASM Foundation's 2023 Sleep Champion Award.

Sponsor (who paid)

Save Standard Time NGO

Credits (who made it)

Jay Pea Individual, 2019- source

Related campaigns

AASM campaign to end seasonal clock changes and adopt permanent standard time 2020–now
Coalition for Permanent Standard Time (Ditch DST) 2023–now

Sources

About Save Standard Time sponsor
Take Action (Save Standard Time) sponsor
The Science of Clock Change videos sponsor

Research notes

Created 2026-10-24 by an AI research pass for #103 (G1); not reviewed by a person. Registered as a 501(c)(4) in 2021 per its site; sources disagree on EIN. Co-founded the International Alliance for Natural Time (2020), which has no website found. Video series funded by the AASM Foundation and made with UC San Diego BioClock Studio. To verify: 2019, 2021, 12-part, 2023.

Record cases/save-standard-time.json, updated 2026-10-24· Link to this campaign