The bill, known as the Sunshine Protection Act, earned 17 cosponsors from both parties in the upper chamber and was passed by unanimous consent.
“The good news is if we can get this passed, we don’t have to keep doing this stupidity anymore,” Rubio said on the Senate floor. “Hopefully this is the year that this gets done and, pardon the pun, but this is an idea whose time has come.”
But staying on Daylight Saving Time means sunrises well past 8:00 a.m. in December, said CBS 11 Chief Meteorologist Scott Padgett. “Well, we’ve all been adjusting to the spring forward for us as far as the times are concerned. Sunrise this morning was at 7:37. Sunset around 7:36. As we go deeper into the year those days get longer for us, the fall equinox, sunrise will be 7:15, sunset at 7:23. Now if we don’t turn the clocks back, Thanksgiving sunrise will be five minutes after 8 in the morning, sunset at 6:22.