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  • Almost every state has considering ending daylight-saving time.
  • States cannot switch to a permanent daylight-saving time until federal law changes.
  • A federal law to end daylight-savings has already passed in the Senate, but is waiting on a House vote.
[Source.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/almost-every-single-us-state-has-considered-laws-to-abolish-daylight-saving-time/ar-BB1jEP5P?ei=30) > - Almost every state has considering ending daylight-saving time. - States cannot switch to a permanent daylight-saving time until federal law changes. - A federal law to end daylight-savings has already passed in the Senate, but is waiting on a House vote.

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California passed a shitty version of law in 2018, the voters passed stopping daylight-saving time. The shitty law was written to say IF 2/3 the state legislature votes to do so then you can have it .... and of course the dems in charge of the state legislature have done abso-damn-lutely nothing to make it as the voters want.

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Something like 20 states have already passed permanent DST laws that go into effect once the feds allow for it.

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If one day the federal govt allows it, California will still not have it unless 2/3 vote for it in state legislature.

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And yet, here we are...

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Arizona has never done it. I think the states can ignore it. The last law I heard about federally would be to make DST the standard rather than regular time which is dumb but at least the clocks won't change for everyone else. I wonder if AZ would just live under a different time zone.

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Correct. States are free to ignore the current DST idiocy, but cant make the change to full-time DST without the Feds getting involved.

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What are the feds going to do, arrest the whole state?

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What are the feds going to do, arrest the whole state?

If a state passes a law making DST permanent, they will be dragged into court so fast it would be a new record. The current law allows states to opt out of DST, but not to make it permanent. If the feds pass the pending new law to allow it, things will get messy real quick.

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They can just adopt to Pacific Time instead of mountain.

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States cannot switch to a permanent daylight-saving time until federal law changes.

The sun should be to the south when it's 12:00. People who want to have permanent daylight-saving time can just go up an hour earlier.

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A state cannot switch to a "permanent daylight-saving time" but it can switch to an earlier time zone which is essentially the same thing. But what the hell.