WASHINGTON — The debate over ending or keeping daylight saving time includes a new proposal to move clocks back by 30 minutes.
Florida's U.S. Rep. Greg Steube has introduced a bill to permanently set all time zones across the country back by half an hour and eliminate the twice-yearly daylight saving time changes from the calendar.
The bill titled the “Daylight Act of 2026” was introduced by Rep. Steube on Feb. 4, 2026, and was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
In 2025, Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan introduced a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, but it did not advance out of committee.
17% of Tampa residents are using 40% of the water during the worst drought in half a century
Mayor Jane Castor and Rory Jones, the city's water department director, gathered at the Hillsborough River Dam to sound the alarm. The dam itself tells the story more plainly than any statistic.
