How time has become an issue amongst many Americans

The President does not have the power to make the change and Congress has not closed the deal when it was up for past votes. In 2022, the Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make DST permanent, but it stalled in the House and was never signed into law.

It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers. In reality, farmers have been one of the strongest lobbying groups against DST since it was first implemented.

DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources. Year-round DST, or "War Time", was implemented again during World War II. After the war, local jurisdictions were free to choose if and when to observe DST until the Uniform Time Act which standardized DST in 1966. Permanent daylight saving time was enacted for the winter of 1974, but there were complaints of children going to school in the dark and working people commuting and starting their work day in pitch darkness during the winter, and it was repealed a year later.

States want the change. Eighteen of the U.S States have already asked for the permanent change to be made. Alabama and the majority of southern states have enacted legislation or passed a resolution to make daylight saving time permanent if the U.S. Congress allowed it.

Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 9, and ends on Nov. 2 in 2025.