Congress takes next step to make daylight saving time permanent
- 4 hours agoNardine SaadGetty ImagesThe US House of Representatives has voted to make daylight saving time permanent by passing the Sunshine Protection Act on Tuesday.
- With a 308-117 vote, members of both parties approved the bill, which would remove the need for Americans to change their clocks twice a year and put the US under time currently observed between March and November - known as permanent standard time.
- Republican Scott DesJarlais, who presided over the vote, played a clip of The Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on his phone during the final countThe time-change issue has been gaining bipa
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- 4 hours agoNardine SaadGetty ImagesThe US House of Representatives has voted to make daylight saving time permanent by passing the Sunshine Protection Act on Tuesday.
- With a 308-117 vote, members of both parties approved the bill, which would remove the need for Americans to change their clocks twice a year and put the US under time currently observed between March and November - known as permanent standard time.
- Republican Scott DesJarlais, who presided over the vote, played a clip of The Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on his phone during the final countThe time-change issue has been gaining bipa
Sources: BBC News