The Atlantic A new bill proposes making daylight saving time permanent. But for one family, it already is. Peter Marlow / Magnum The rest of America sprang forward yesterday, but Tali and Scott Richards have been here all along. Standard time has mired most of the U.S. in winter darkness for months. In November, Americans willed the sun, which otherwise would have set by 6 p.m. or so in the northern part of the U.S., to set earlier, at 5 or even 4. Those who still have analog clocks and watches cranked them back one hour; otherwise, iPhones and other devices automatically thrust the country backward.