President Trump and the clock change (and it’s about time!)

President Trump wants the twice-a-year clock change to stop, with the country left on daylight saving time. On 4 August 2026 he wrote that the change is “foolish, inconvenient and, in some cases, very costly,” and “leave it as it is now, and never change again.” He asked the Senate to pass the Sunshine Protection Act. The bill is H.R. 139, from Rep. Vern Buchanan. Congress.gov titles it “to make daylight savings time permanent.” The House passed it on 14 July 2026, 308 to 117. On 15 July the Senate received it and referred it to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. There has been no Senate vote. It is not law. Daylight saving time still ends at 2:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, 1 November 2026, when the clocks go back one hour. The faces on this page still follow that rule.

The House bill would make daylight saving time the permanent standard time. States and territories that already stay on standard time, Hawaii and most of Arizona among them, could keep that or move to permanent daylight time. If the Senate passes the bill and the President signs it, the IANA zones in your browser change only after the time-zone data does. Until that file moves, 1 November is still a fall-back. This page is not a time signal. Official time is at time.gov.