Hate changing clocks twice a year? Proposed N.J. law would extend Daylight Saving Time.

Commuters, students, even pets despise the twice-a-year ritual of setting the clocks back an hour in the fall and ahead one hour in spring that disrupts everyone’s sleep .

The twice-a year ritual of switching between daylight saving and standard time might become an unpleasant memory in New Jersey, but two laws need to be passed to make it happen.

Lawmakers took the first steps Monday to have New Jersey permanently halt daylight saving time, ending the ritual of losing and gaining an hour of sleep.

A bill that cleared the state transportation committee Monday would require New Jersey to remain on daylight saving time permanently.

The bill’s sponsors argue that daylight saving time is used for eight months out of the year now and the switch back to standard time is an outdated proce