House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent | CNN Politics
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The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.

The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.

It will now head to the Senate for approval before going to the president for his signature — though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear.

  • SarcasticMan
    91·
    1 day ago

    Permanant DST was signed into law January 1974 and repealed October 1974. Everyone hated it, it went from 79% approval in December of 1973 to 46% in February of 1974.

      • SarcasticMan
        41·
        19 hours ago

        Did they? Because Arizona was actually exempt from the 1974 change and chose to stay at standard time. They made Standard Time permanent in 1968.