Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942 and is still recognized in most parts of the country.

The Senate Commerce Committee took up the issue, which has bedeviled lawmakers for years - but it made no major progress, either.

Instead, the Senate committee hearing on whether to end the wrenching, twice-a-year shifts between daylight saving time and standard ... by the clocks “falling back” an hour on the first ...

Lawmakers and witnesses mostly agreed that choosing a permanent spring forward or fall back was a good idea, but neither was a clear winner. Daylight saving time supporters say the change cuts ...

President Trump on Friday backed switching the U.S. to permanent daylight savings time, a move that would ... on ending the “spring forward, fall back” drama for good. However, he noted ...

If only for 90 minutes, Republicans and Democrats found an issue on Thursday that didn’t involve President Donald Trump or divide them predictably along party lines. Instead, the Senate committee ...

President Trump on Friday renewed his call for changes to daylight saving time, just a month after ... most Americans to turn the clocks back an hour in the fall, have argued it would allow ...

There’s a movement afoot to do away with Daylight Saving Time ... not turning clocks back in the fall. It was a resounding flop. As for the inconvenience of changing the time twice a year ...

“We find ourselves adjusting our clocks… springing forward and falling back in the fall ... with changing the time twice a year and with the permanence of Daylight Saving Time (DST), versus ...