House passes bill that would make daylight saving time permanent

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Jul. 14, 2026, 5:19 PM EDT


Efforts in Congress to make daylight saving time permanent sprang forward after the House passed legislation that would remove the need for Americans to adjust their clocks twice a year.

The legislation, known as the Sunshine Protection Act, passed 308-117. It would put the country on the time currently observed from March to November unless a state exempted itself before the act took effect. President Donald Trump publicly pushed Congress to pass the legislation. He wrote May 21 on Truth Social that he was “going to work very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law.”

“It’s time that people can stop worrying about the ‘Clock,’ not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production. It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it!” Trump wrote. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. A Senate version of the Sunshine Protection Act stalled last year after Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., objected to fast-tracking the bill’s passage via unanimous consent in October.

Cotton said the change to permanent daylight saving time could lead to overlooked negative consequences, pointing to parts of the country where the sun wouldn’t rise until 9 a.m. or later and citing potentially dangerous, dark morning commutes and workers who would need to work early mornings without sun.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-bill-daylight-saving-time-permanent-sunshine-protection-rcna587531

[Cheezoholic]

1. More like the golfers act lol n/t

[maxsolomon]

2. This sucks.

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Hopefully Senator Asshole Cotton can force this into debate.

Otherwise, goodbye 9 pm sunsets, hello 4 am sunrises. 9 am sunrises.

[Wednesdays]

5. I read that it's to make saving time permanent.

If so, then 9 p.m. sunsets will continue. Except in winter it'll be 6 p.m.-ish. The problem is it'll still be dark at 9 a.m. in winter.

[maxsolomon]

6. Oh, OK.

My bad. I read the opposite for some reason.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. I think you've got it backwards

If daylight savings becomes year round, it won’t affect sunrise/sunset in the May-September period, it will affect the winter months the most.

The sun won’t rise until 9am or later, depending on how far north you live, and sunset would be a reasonable 5-6pm, depending on how far south you lived.

[Polybius]

8. You got it backwards

This means it gets dark late. Standard time it gets dark early.

[ToxMarz]

3. Why don't we just use standard time and change normal business hours/school hours. Its the same difference.

Why set our schedules based on standard time values then adjust the time to daylight savings time to because we don't like it. And not everyones life/work even revovles around a 9-5 schedule.

[Polybius]

9. Because no one wants it to get dark early in the Summer n/t

[ToxMarz]

10. It gets dark at the same actual time, the only difference is what artificial time the clock says.

Adjust the schedule instead.

[Polybius]

11. Because no one wants it to get dark when the clock says 7:30 (or whatever) in the Summer

Better? Adjust the schedule instead, get up an hour later.

[wackadoo wabbit]

4. Permanent standard time, not DST, is healthier ... n/t

[Fil1957]

12. This was done before back in the 70s, and they had to stop it 'cause there were multiple fatalities -- mostly school

kids who would get run over waiting in the dark for the school bus.

What we have now sucks, but it's the least bad of all the other systems. If we go back to Daylight Saving time year round, people will die as a result -- mainly school kids.

But Republicans only care about kids when they're in the womb, not when they're out of it, so of course they're on board with this bill.

[twodogsbarking]

13. They say if we don't turn the clocks back ever again that in a few years it will be light all twenty four hours.

And CBS will cover it right after the daily bear story. Here's the news, bears shit in the woods, would you?

[BidenRocks]

14. This is the most important issue we face!