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The Sunshine Protection Act is a proposed United States federal law that would make U.S. daylight saving time permanent, meaning the time would no longer change twice per year. [ 1][ 2] The bill has been proposed during several sessions of Congress. In 2022, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, although several senators stated later ...
Establishing either permanent standard or daylight saving time (DST) eliminates the practice of semi-annual clock changes, specifically the advancement of clocks by one hour from standard time to DST on the second Sunday in March (commonly called "spring forward") and the retraction of clocks by one hour from DST to standard time on the first Sunday in November ("fall back").
Updated November 4, 2023 at 6:55 PM. ... which would make the state stick to permanent daylight saving if authorized by federal law. At the federal level, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., proposed a ...
The American public is split on the subject: only 21% of Americans prefer changing clocks twice per year, yet 50% favor permanent daylight saving time and 31% support permanent standard time; 17% are undecided. [50] As of November 2023, a number of state bills have been introduced, and a bill in the US Senate has been reintroduced. None have ...
By David Shepardson. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks ...
In 2022, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to make DST permanent in 2023. While the bill, dubbed the Sunshine Protection Act, was unanimously approved by the Senate, it stalled in the House of ...
A group of 12 bipartisan senators said on Friday they are making a new legislative effort to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-annual changing of clocks. In March 2022, the U.S ...
Daylight saving time ( DST ), also referred to as daylight saving (s), daylight savings time, daylight time ( United States and Canada ), or summer time ( United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time ...