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Posted on 10/29/2025 8:12:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
A bipartisan group of lawmakers sought unanimous consent approval for a bill that would stop the changing of the clocks.
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Sen. Tom Cotton wasn’t fast enough in 2022 to block Senate passage of legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent. Three years later, he wasn’t about to repeat that same mistake.
The Arkansas Republican was on hand Tuesday afternoon to thwart a bipartisan effort on the chamber floor to pass a bill that would put an end to changing the clocks twice a year, including this coming Sunday.
“If permanent Daylight Savings Time becomes the law of the land, it will again make winter a dark and dismal time for millions of Americans,” said Cotton in his objection to a request by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to advance the bill by unanimous consent.
“For many Arkansans, permanent daylight savings time would mean the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8:00 or even 8:30am during the dead of winter,” Cotton continued. “The darkness of permanent savings time would be especially harmful for school children and working Americans.”
A cross-party coalition of lawmakers has been trying for years to make daylight saving time the default, which would result in more daylight in the evening hours with less in the morning, plus bring to a halt to biannual clock adjustments.
President Donald Trump endorsed the concept this spring, calling the changing of the clocks “a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!”
His comments coincided with a hearing, then a markup, of Scott’s legislation in the Senate Commerce Committee. It set off an intense lobbying battle in turn, pitting the golf and retail industries — which are advocating for permanent daylight saving time — against the likes of sleep doctors and Christian radio broadcasters — who prefer standard time.
Joined by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in calling for the Senate to pass the bill Tuesday, Scott cited states’ rights as a major reason for his support for the so-called “Sunshine Protection Act.”
“It allows the people of each state to choose what best fits their needs and the needs of their families,” said Scott. “The American people are sick and tired of changing their clocks twice a year. It’s confusing, unnecessary and completely outdated.”
There was hope earlier this year that momentum was growing for the quixotic legislative campaign after progress stalled following senators’ success in 2022 to pass a version of Scott’s bill by unanimous consent — an outcome typically reserved for noncontroversial bills that took lawmakers by surprise.
Cotton on Tuesday decried the “abject failure” of the last time Congress enacted permanent daylight saving time in 1974, pledging to always oppose legislation that would do just that.
He said he took “full responsibility” for dropping the ball in 2022, explaining he hadn’t adequately communicated the extent of his opposition and that he had expected another senator to object.
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Dunces.
We should keep STANDARD TIME year round.
Where I used to work I had to drive to work in the dark and come home in the dark. I never saw the sun unless I rarely had to go outside during the day for some reason...........
And he’s exactly correct. When i used to drive my daughter to her bus stop when she was in grammar school is was nearly pitch black in late October when the bus would pick her up.
I hate DST but it is necessary for the the reason to mitigate darkness when kids get picked up for school in the morning....
Leaving DST up to the states would be chaos. Imagine how your flight schedules would look if some states had DST and others didn’t. Just like time zones, DST should be decided nationally. I’m all in favor of just setting the clock and leaving it alone. DST offers no real benefits to anyone.
I don’t think Indiana does either. I fly out there for the NFL Combine and they are always on EST...
Good. Standard time needs to be made permanent with no DST ever applied.
Cold Heart wrote:
How about standard time based on the sun and not political reasons. Noon is when the sun is at it’s highest for that time zone.
Henchster wrote:
Why go to Daylight Savings Time permanently? Why not just keep Standard time year-round? Then when it is noon, the sun is at it’s peak, you know, like it’s supposed to be.
Once upon a time, there was no standard time. Every town had it’s own ‘noon’ based upon when the sun was at it’s peak.
With the coming of the railroads, it became chaos. Can you imagine making a railroad schedule with every railroad station having it’s own version of time?
The railroad barons got together and created the current system of time zones. Each zone was roughly the distance a train could travel in 24 hours which is why the mountain time zone is so much smaller than the others.
Now, fast forward. If every airport had it’s own version of time, then how does one create airline schedules?
Not all states participate in DST now..............
So in winter you would rather drive TO work in the dark?
Nixon - but otherwise history shows this is correct. That is why it didn’t last long and was quickly repealed.
We already know *why* this is a bad idea.
DST simply moves a sunlit hour in a summertime morning to the evening, where, in theory, people can enjoy the pleasant outdoors.
And the incentive for DST comes from the fact that the Earth’s axis is not perpendicular to the Earth’s orbit around the sun. If it were, life on Earth as we know it would probably not exist.
Maybe it should be called “Daylight Shifting Time.” With “Saving” I’ve always expected a little interest in return (maybe an hour and 2 minutes back in the Fall).
I think you actually mean the opposite of what you said, right? Otherwise why would you believe DST is necessary, since everything else you said is in opposition to its existence?
Call it “Trump Time,” and piss ‘em all off.
Schools could adjust their hours of operation as could most or all of retail to operate in daylight hours instead of expecting the rest of the country to shift twice a year.
When I was in school it was 9am-3pm. Now it’s 7:30 to whenever they get picked up as half the kids are in after school programs that are essentially daycare.
Leave the clocks alone and tell people to suit themselves and/or buy blackout curtains if the morning sun is early for them.
I am curious as to whether DST effects evening crime rates.
In temperate zones it still gets bright too early in midsummer so maybe we should advance the clocks two hours ahead for a month either side of the summer solstice.
Or maybe have a compromise--have the clocks advanced 30 minutes and keep it that way year round.
Yes
The sun should never set before dinner.
The airline cancelations would probly stay the same
There are obvious arguments against this like the date on the International Date Line would not change at midnight, so we would need to move it to Greenwich. You could get up for work and drop the kids off at the bus stop at 3pm just as the sun was coming up. Come home, have dinner and everyone in bed by 4am. /s
When I listened to shortwave radio, as a kid, times were always given in GMT, so you would know when to tune in.
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