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For the full results from last night's votes from Texas to North Carolina, go to NYTimes.com.
Another locale is saying no, nope, not anymore to springing forward and falling back.
The top government official in Canada's West Coast province announced they are done with all that.
In British Columbia, the shift this weekend will be their last.
They're going to pick one time zone and stick with it.
They're not alone.
There's a huge amount of support for scrapping the twice-a-year time jumps.
Most countries don't do it.
In the U.S., it's a holdover from 100-plus years ago, though some go as far back as blaming Benjamin Franklin for it.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has said it should stop, that it disrupts the body's natural clock.
And that kind of shift can have health effects and lead to things like more traffic accidents.
There is legislation to end it in the U.S., and that's made slow but steady progress in Congress.
For now, though, it is still coming.
So Sunday, remember, you're going to lose an hour.
You're going to have to reset your clocks.
Or maybe because you never bothered to do it last time, your microwave's going to finally be right again.
Those are the headlines.
Today on The Daily, a look at how the merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers could reshape the cultural and political landscape in the U.S.
You can listen to that in The New York Times app or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Tracy Mumford.