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Florida Senator Renews Push To Make Daylight Saving Time Year-Round
March 7, 2026
As we spring forward by an hour tonight, one Florida senator has renewed his push to keep daylight saving time year-round.
His Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight savings time year round.
“Floridians and families across the country are counting down the days until they can spring forward and enjoy more sunshine. Even just an extra hour in the evening means more time to play with your kids, walk your dog, and, for those in the Sunshine State, enjoy all that our beautiful beaches, parks, and cities have to offer,” Scott said.
In 2018, as governor of Florida, Scott signed legislation that, pending federal approval, would exempt Florida from the biannual time change and allow the state to remain on daylight time all year.
Last year, Senator Scott was joined by 17 of his bipartisan Senate colleagues in reintroducing this bill. Congressman Vern Buchanan leads the companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
“With support from President Donald Trump and a bipartisan group of colleagues, it’s clear that now is the time for Congress to pass my Sunshine Protection Act. Together, we can finally lock the clock and make Daylight Saving Time permanent so that families can enjoy brighter evenings all year long,” Scott says.
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7 Responses to “Florida Senator Renews Push To Make Daylight Saving Time Year-Round”
I’m glad to see this being tried again. Keep it simple!! There are 2 states that do not change their time, it’s Hawaii & most of Arizona. The Navajo section in northeast AZ has a time change.
It’s absolutely insane that the nation has this disruptive exercise in stupidity twice a year. If you’re waiting on our politicians to remedy it, we’ll all be dead and gone.
@Not You: time only exists in the human world. Nature knows no time. So standard or daylight time is irrelevant. It’s a matter of how you wish to assign a number system to our planet’s cyclical rotation. The majority of Floridians already voted they don’t wish for a winter sunset before 5pm.
Daylight saving time is an unnecessary contrivance. Keep standard time year around. Nature will take care of the longer days in summer and shorter days in winter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah…Again.
I hope they leave this time and quit changing the time. Make Daylight Saving Time Year-Round!
18 of 50 sates want to adopt permanent daylight saving time. While the current law allows a state to stay on standard time year around, they can’t electe year round DST without a change to federal law. The Senate voted unanimously in 2022 in support but the Housenever got around to it. Now after 4 years, they are trying again. It is amazing that something so simple can take a decade just to get a vote one way or the other. Maybe this year it will happen.