House passes daylight saving time reform as Trump signals support for ending clock change

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House passes daylight saving time reform as Trump signals support for ending clock change
Rep Vern Buchanan's bill heads to the Senate, where skeptics warn it would push winter sunrises past 9 am in some places
By Adam Pack Fox News
Published July 14, 2026 5:19pm EDT

A bipartisan effort to make daylight saving time permanent is one step closer to becoming law after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the measure on Tuesday.

Lawmakers voted 308-117 to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round as a growing mass of lawmakers push to extend daylight into the evening hours.

"For decades, we have accepted this ritual of springing forward and falling back, even though it disrupts routines, throws off our sleep and creates unnecessary frustration for families across the country," Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said Tuesday, detailing how the clock changes have disrupted her infant son's sleep schedule.

"Let's stop asking Americans to reset their clocks every March and November," she continued. "Let's provide some certainty and consistency and a little more sunshine at the end of the day."

The legislation divided lawmakers in both parties, with members largely from coastal areas, such as Louisiana, Florida and New Jersey, supporting permanent daylight saving time and others from the Midwest and agriculture-heavy states opposing it.

Democrats were nearly evenly split, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., opposing it. Just 22 Republicans voted in opposition, including Reps. Bryan Steil, R-Wis.; Rick Crawford, R-Ark.; Ryan Zinke, R-Mont.; and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo.

The measure now heads to the Senate, where its prospects remain uncertain amid skepticism from members of both parties. President Donald Trump, who has long called for ending the twice-a-year clock changes, is expected to sign the bill if it reaches his desk.

The White House urged lawmakers to support the Sunshine Protection Act in an internal memo sent to Hill offices Tuesday, calling it a "popular, common-sense reform."

Nearly every state follows the practice of setting clocks forward one hour in March to preserve more evening daylight before "falling back" one hour in November.

But nearly 20 states have already approved legislation to make daylight saving time permanent if Congress authorizes the practice. Hawaii and most of Arizona, however, do not observe daylight saving time.

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[Cyber Liberty]

They better not screw with the time in Arizona, we're always on standard time!

[berdie]

I'm for it!!! But if states can opt out what difference will it make in the long run?

[Smokin Joe]

Daylight savings time causes global warming.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I HATE this light until 9 PM shit.

[rustynail]

Could they do a month so spring gets here sooner?

[Cyber Liberty]

I HATE this light until 9 PM shit.

It's worse here.  DST means sunset ta 9:30 PM.

[The_Reader_David]

Exactly wrong.  Standard time should be made permanent.

[Cyber Liberty]

Exactly wrong.  Standard time should be made permanent.

 

[Bigun]

Exactly wrong.  Standard time should be made permanent.

 

[Idiot]

I HATE this light until 9 PM shit.

Baaah humbug......   I love this time of year when the sun goes down at 8:30 pm and the sun comes up at 7.  During the winter months I want it light later instead of the sun going down at 5 pm then you are couped up in the house all evening.  I prefer this time..........

[Canuck Conservative]

During the winter months I want it light later instead of the sun going down at 5 pm then you are couped up in the house all evening

But that means the mornings will be dark ... just when kids are walking to school, too ... and more accidents happen in darkness

Year-round DST has been tried before (winter of 1973-74, right after the Oil Shock), and those were the same complaints that stopped it

Let's see how enthusiastic people are about Year-round DST in December and January ...

[Bigun]

One has to wonder how man survived on this planet for thousands of years before some idiot determined that we needed to start messing with our clocks twice a year!

[DefiantMassRINO]

Oh, great.  We just updated computer timezone files in 2005, and now we have to do it again.

I'd like to see New England moved to the Atlantic Timezone so we can more sunlight in the late afternoon during Winter's "Standard Time".

Sunset at 4:00 PM is so depressing.

Also, changing the clock twice a year confuses the pets.  They're either an hour early or hour late for walks and feeding times.

My dog can't read a clock, but she can tell time.

[corbe]

   Now with more POLL goodness.

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=585392.0

[mountaineer]

Tom Cotton
@TomCottonAR

11:43 AM · Jul 15, 2026

Chip Roy
@chiproytx
I agree with Tom.  I voted no - if you want one time, it should be standard.  But color me crazy, I’d like to FOCUS… codify Trump border policies, fix “birthright citizenship,” enact SAVE, ban congressional stock trading, stop corporate & govt surveillance… etc…
12:54 PM · Jul 15, 2026
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Wikipedia:

The first implementation of DST was by Port Arthur and Fort William (later merged into Thunder Bay), in Ontario, Canada, in 1908, but only locally, not nationally. The first nation-wide implementations were by the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, both starting on 30 April 1916. Since then, many countries have adopted DST at various times, particularly since the 1970s energy crisis.  ... It became common during World War II (some countries adopted double summer time), and was standardized in the US by federal law in 1966(.) ... Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

It would appear, then, that DST has not existed for most of recorded human history, and yet somehow we survived. 

[Hoodat]

They better not screw with the time in Arizona, we're always on standard time!

You'll soon be on Central Standard Time.

[verga]

American Indians once said,"Only a paleface would think that cutting off 2 inches on one end of a blanket and sewing it on to the other end would make it longer”