A bill that would do away with the twice-yearly time change is back in the U.S. Senate, with backing from Alabama Republican Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, introduced the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act last week. The bill, similar to other previously introduced measures, would make daylight saving time permanent year round, doing away with standard time and the “spring forward, fall back” ritual. Earlier efforts to make DST the year-round standard passed the Senate but did not receive House approval, effectively killing the bill.

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According to the Uniform Time Act of 1966, states are allowed to stay on standard time year-round – something done in Hawaii and Arizona – but are not able to permanently establish DST, meaning Congress would have to change the law. Nineteen states, including Alabama, have already passed legislation to do away with the time change, pending Congressional approval.

Scott called the time-change practice “an unnecessary, decades-old practice that’s more of an annoyance to families than benefit to them.”

Tuberville agreed, saying establishing year-round DST is “the thing I hear about most from Alabamians,” while Britt said “the American people are tired of the antiquated practice of “falling back” every year.”

“Alabamians want more sunshine, and it’s better for our mental and physical health,” Britt added.

Daylight Saving Time was first introduced in the U.S. in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson as an energy-saving measure during World War I. It was reintroduced during World War II but until 1966, different states observed the time change at various times. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 set a unified national schedule for DST to start last Sunday of April and end the last Sunday of October. That was changed by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which set DST for the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

In 2025, DST starts March 9, meaning sunrise and sunset will be about one hour later on that day than the day before.