Most of the United States will set clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. local time Sunday as daylight saving time ends, States Newsroom reported, while a House-passed bill to make daylight saving time year-round remains stalled in the Senate¹.

The House voted in July for the Sunshine Protection Act, which would keep most of the country on daylight saving time year-round¹. President Donald Trump has said he wants year-round daylight saving time, and the report said members of both parties backed the House measure¹.

Senators are scheduled to return from recess on Nov. 9, when another push for the change is expected¹. Opposition comes from some senators from rural states and from those who say winter sunrises would leave children walking to school in darkness¹.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in an Oct. 3 post that Congress has enacted permanent daylight saving time before and later repealed it after late winter sunrises¹. His office pointed to that post when asked for comment last week, according to the report¹.

Trump posted on Truth Social that people are tired of changing clocks twice a year and, in another post, criticized Cotton¹. The report said Trump appeared to share Cotton’s cell phone number in that dispute¹.

Federal law has required most states to shift clocks twice a year since the Uniform Time Act of 1966¹. A 1970s winter experiment with extended daylight saving time was widely unpopular, and a 1975 Transportation Department report to Congress described energy benefits as modest and hard to isolate¹.

Daylight saving time now runs from the second Sunday in March through the first Sunday in November¹. The report said the odds remain good that clocks will move forward again on March 8, 2027¹. The report did not say the Senate has scheduled a floor vote¹.

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1. Arkansas AdvocateTime for change? Permanent daylight saving time bill awaiting US Senate action7:03 AM

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