{"id":297192,"date":"2026-07-16T00:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297192\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:24:17","slug":"n-y-assemblyman-pushes-daylight-saving-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297192\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. assemblyman pushes daylight saving change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time could be running out for the bi-annual clock changing ritual known as daylight saving time.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent.<\/p>\n<p>That would bring an end to &#8220;falling back&#8221; and &#8220;springing forward&#8221; on your clocks.<\/p>\n<p>The bill still needs to pass the Senate, but the White House has signaled support for the change.<\/p>\n<p>New York state Assemblymember Angelo Santabarbara, a Rotterdam Democrat, has been a longtime proponent of making the change here in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Santabarbara told Capital Tonight on Wednesday that the change could be an economic boon for tourism and daily activities across the Empire State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are a lot of benefits to doing this and there&#8217;s a big downside to keeping it the way it is\u201d argued Santabarbara.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2025 Gallup poll, a majority of Americans support sunsetting the biannual time change. Santabarbara believes that support will grow now that the bill is advancing.<\/p>\n<p>Santabarbara says \u201cNew York is ready for it. I know a lot of other states are as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time could be running out for the bi-annual clock changing ritual known as daylight saving time. The U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,3476,87594,27,200],"class_list":["post-297192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-capital-tonight","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-state-assembly","tag-tim-williams","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}