Permanent daylight saving time is on the table. Would California scrap being on standard time?

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Set us as preferred A proposal to make daylight saving time the year-round default nationwide is once again coming before Congress.And, as in the past in both California and nationally, proponents and opponents of the switch cite the potential effects (good or bad) on health, business and agriculture as reasons to support or oppose the plan.The House is expected to vote on the Sunshine Protection Act this week, according to the office of Rep.

Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), the bill’s author.The Senate version of the bill, SB 29, is sponsored by Sen.

Alex Padilla (D-Calif.).In a statement last year he said, “More daylight after work means more business and more active, safer California communities.”Most of the U.S.

went on daylight saving time in the spring, moving clocks one hour ahead of standard time.The bill would end the “fall back” to standard time that typically takes place in November.

The change would mean darker mornings and later sunsets.President Trump has indicated that he supports the plan.It won’t be the first time the debate over timekeeping has made its way to Capitol Hill.

In 2022, a bill to make daylight saving time permanent was approved by the Senate, but the effort stalled in the House.“It’s clear that year-round daylight saving time is a popular, commonsense reform that will improve everyday life for millions of Americans,” Buchanan said in a statement to The Times.“Passing my bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act will bring us one step closer to ending the outdated and unpopular practice of changing our clocks twice a year.”Areas that already do not observe daylight saving time would be able to stay on permanent standard time, according to the bill text.

For example, Arizona and Hawaii do not move their clocks forward or backward.Lawmakers in California and other states could opt out mak...