New Delhi, July 15 -- WASHINGTON - The House voted 308 to 117 on Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent, a margin wide enough to signal genuine bipartisan support for a measure that has spent years collecting Senate votes without ever reaching a president's desk.

The Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan of Florida, would eliminate the twice-yearly clock change that shifts an hour of daylight from mornings to evenings each spring, and returns it each fall. If enacted, Americans would no longer reset their clocks in March and November, and the darker winter afternoons that define the standard time months would become the permanent condition instead of a seasonal one.

The legislation includes an opt-out ...