In fact, DST — now in effect from early March until early November — doesn’t save anything. Clocks merely advance an hour, shifting sunlight from the morning to the evening. The length of the day doesn’t change a single nanosecond.The prospective policy change would incorporate language from the so-called Sunshine Protection Act, co-sponsored annually by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), into the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act, a massive multiyear, trillion-dollar transportation spending bill now under consideration.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee reported the bill out of committee by a vote of 48-1. It now heads to a vote in the full chamber.
Under the proposal, details of which await the bill’s final version, individual states would have an opportunity to opt out of permanent DST, as do Arizona (except for land occupied by the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, and the U.S. territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, which have maintained year-round standard time since 1966. If they do, however, it apparently would be irrevocable, as a provision of the bill would prevent any future changes by the states’ legislatures.
