Isn't that just changing the time zone and abolishing daylight savings?
"Senate votes"
What does this mean? Does it take effect forever starting from today? Does Senate have authority to actually enact the change or is that some other dude that actually flips the lever?
Schoolhouse Rock - Bill https://youtu.be/OgVKvqTItto
[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...
IIRC the Senate passed the bill unanimously. If the House passes the bill by a large majority it predicts a veto would be overridden. In such cases even if inclined to veto, the President typically acknowledges defeat and signs the bill into law.
Yes but the clocks will now say EDT instead of EST (in the Eastern time zone for example). We will forever know that we have saved the daylight.
Original text for the zones: http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:15%20section:2...
Bill amending that law: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/69/t...
It's redefining the offsets from UTC for the zones, for standard time. And also repeals all of 15 USC 260a http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:15%20section:2... a.k.a. Section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966. Ergo, the 'D' in all the time zones goes away.