Daylight saving time: Why does California still 'spring forward'?

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Daylight saving time: Why does California still 'spring forward'?
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Daylight Saving Time is here and so are the later sunsets.

- although it passed in the Golden State - did not actually change DST, but rather gave the state legislature the ability to actually change it if they earn a two-thirds vote on it and if the federal government already allows it." on March 2 to make daylight saving time permanent across the country. However, the 117th Congress expired in early January without any more action on Rubio’s bill.

Congress is in charge of time. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants the House and Senate the power to "fix weights and measures." The House of Representatives must first pass the bill, then President Joe Biden must sign it, before Americans can say goodbye to any sort of time change.

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