House passes daylight saving time reform as Trump signals support for ending clock change

A bipartisan effort to make daylight saving time permanent is one step closer to becoming law after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the measure on Tuesday.

Lawmakers voted 308-117 to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round as a growing mass of lawmakers push to extend daylight into the evening hours.

"For decades, we have accepted this ritual of springing forward and falling back, even though it disrupts routines...