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.
'It's someone's loved one': Tampa approves land swap to preserve the stolen graves at Zion Cemetery
The City of Tampa said council members approved a land swap agreement to transfer privately owned land believed to be Zion, Tampa's first African American cemetery.
