Sunshine Daydream: Florida Bill Would Make Daylight Saving Time Year-Round
This weekend, most people in the U.S. will reset their clocks and spring forward. In Florida, there's a push to never fall back.
by Laurel Wamsley
Mar 08, 2018
3 minutes
Most of us will lose an hour of sleep this weekend as we dutifully spring forward and daylight saving time begins.
But if Florida gets its way, the state will stay on daylight saving time ... forever.
On Tuesday, Florida's Senate approved the Sunshine Protection Act, which asks Congress to allow the state to observe daylight saving time year-round â not just the eight months that's standard in the United States.
The bill
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