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Bill To Keep Florida On Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time Advances Easily

February 12, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Dali persistence of time
The persistence of Daylight Saving.

Most of the Panhandle would remain an hour behind the rest of the state under a revamped Senate proposal that would seek congressional approval to put Florida on year-round daylight-saving time.


The Commerce and Tourism Committee voted unanimously Monday to support a bill (SB 858) to keep Floridians from having to reset their clocks twice a year.

Before the vote, bill sponsor Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, removed a provision that would have placed all of the state in the Eastern time zone, noting that people in Northwest Florida objected to switching from Central time.

“Northern Florida people in the Central Time zone overwhelmingly want to stay where they are,” said committee Chairman Bill Montford, a Tallahassee Democrat whose sprawling 11-county district includes areas in each time zone.

Montford is among three Northwest Florida senators who had earlier announced they were “adamantly opposed” to moving the entire state into the Eastern Time zone.

The change in the Senate bill makes it nearly identical to the House version (HB 1013), which swept through a pair of committees and is slated to go to the full House on Wednesday.

If approved by the Legislature, the proposal to shift to year-round daylight-saving time would depend on congressional approval.

Steube’s bill, called the “Sunshine Protection Act,” must still get through the Rules Committee before reaching the Senate floor.

If the measure is ultimately signed into law, Steube couldn’t give an estimate on how long it may take Congress to act, but he expects other states to follow Florida in seeking the change.

After Steube’s proposal drew unanimous support on Jan. 23 from the Community Affairs Committee, Montford was joined by Sen. Doug Broxson, R-Gulf Breeze, and Sen. George Gainer, R-Panama City, in expressing displeasure with the proposal to go to Eastern time in the Panhandle.

“We have heard our constituents loud and clear that they want to us to maintain our historical place in the Central time zone,” wrote Broxson.

Among the issues for the Panhandle counties would be time differences with people living in neighboring Alabama, which is on Central time. Also, the change could alter the amount of light before school, which would become a safety issue for schools, Montford said.

Hawaii and most of Arizona currently don’t participate in switching from standard time to daylight-saving time and back. They stay on standard time throughout the year. Daylight-saving time will start March 11 this year and end Nov. 4.

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  1. Veteran says

    February 12, 2018 at 7:53 pm

    I’m retired so can sleep till 8:30 AM in the winter. But otherwise a very stupid idea. We tried this during the energy crisis in the 70s and it did not work!

  2. Anonymous says

    February 12, 2018 at 8:35 pm

    Yippie Yippie! Now our internal clocks won’t have to be reset twice a year. That has been very hard on our health.

  3. Rhonda says

    February 12, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    What about not being in sync with the rest of the entire east coast for half of the year?

    Flight times, TV shows, etc.?

    Isn’t that something anyone cares about?

  4. Richard says

    February 13, 2018 at 4:39 am

    My opinion is that the entire continental USA should do away with DST and keep the clocks set to your specific time zone. If the state of Florida eliminated DST are they going to replace all of the atomic driven clocks people now own as they will not be correct for when DST starts for the rest of the country?

  5. Born and Raised Here says

    February 13, 2018 at 7:17 am

    .Of Course, Florida is the Sunshine State,

  6. Born and Raised Here says

    February 13, 2018 at 7:28 am

    Nothing should open or start till 10 am here in Florida.

  7. Just the truth says

    February 13, 2018 at 9:38 am

    All for it, has my vote.

  8. Anonymous says

    February 13, 2018 at 9:39 am

    Our lawmakers have nothing more to think of that needs their attention so they dwell on this!! How about doing something about this corrupt state and changing it’s image and start right here in Flagler County! https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/florida-most-corrupt-in-country_n_1577571.html http://floridapolitics.com/archives/191150-harvard-says-florida-one-of-americas-most-politically-corrupt-states http://www.tbo.com/ap/politics/study-ranks-florida-no–in-government-corruption-409916 https://www.nosue.org/florida-corruption/ and on and on and on…….

  9. Stan says

    February 14, 2018 at 8:12 am

    What does sleeping have to do with daylight savings time?Go for it!! stay on daylight savings time.

  10. smarterthanmost says

    February 15, 2018 at 6:53 am

    If I was retired, DST is meaningless, since I still work, I would like it everyday of the year.

  11. Daphne says

    February 16, 2018 at 7:23 am

    The impacts are far reaching. Unless all states do away with DST, this will be a complete mess. Given that Tourism is so huge here, the travel confusion alone is reason enough not to do this.

  12. Leisa says

    February 16, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    I vote yes!

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