BREAKING NEWS: Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make Daylight Saving Time permanent – meaning Americans would no longer have to change their clocks twice a year to account for the time change.

States and regions that do not currently observe Daylight Saving Time – Hawaii and most of Arizona, the Navajo Nation, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands – will not be required to adopt any changes.

Daylight Saving Time was first adopted by the federal government in 1918 before being repealed seven months later. It went through a series of re-adoptions and changes, and the current Daylight Saving Time lasts months longer than when it was first implemented.

(AP)