The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent.<\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. <\/p>\n The vote was 308-117<\/a>.<\/p>\n Daylight saving time is the period between spring and fall when clocks in most parts of the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time. <\/p>\n If the Sunshine Protection Act<\/a> passes the Senate, that clock shift would disappear.<\/p>\n So here in Florida, for instance, during winter solstice -the shortest day of the year – the sun rises<\/a> at around 7 a.m. and sets around 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n But under permanent daylight saving time, sunrise would happen around 8 a.m., while sunset would occur<\/a> roughly around 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n States could opt out if their respective legislatures act to do so before the bill\u2019s enactment. <\/p>\n The Senate passed<\/a> a bill four years ago to make daylight saving time permanent, but it stalled in the House.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. \u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-341927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}