It passed the Senate but not the House.
it died in darkness
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/04/permanent-daylight-saving-time
Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent
"A bill to permanently “spring forward” has been stalled in Congress for more than seven months,as lawmakers trade jabs over whether the Senate should have passed the legislation at all. House officials say they’ve been deluged by voters with split opinions and warnings from sleep specialists who insist that adopting permanent standard time instead would be healthier, and congressional
leaders admit they just don’t know what to do.
The bill’s quiet collapse puts an end to an unusual episode that briefly riveted Congress, became fodder for late-night comics and fueled water-cooler debate. The Senate’s unanimous vote in March to allow states to permanently shift their clocks caught some of the chamber’s own members by surprise — and in a reverse of traditional Washington dynamics, it was the House slowing down the Senate’s legislation. Key senators who backed permanent daylight saving time say they’re mystified that their effort appears doomed, and frustrated that they will probably have to start over in the next Congress.
Sleep experts and neurologists urgently cautioned that shifting away from early-morning sunlight would harm circadian rhythms, sleep-wake cycles and overall health. Groups such as
religious Jewish people complained that moving the clocks later in the winter would preventthem from conducting morning prayers after the sun rises and still get to work and school on time.
There also are regional differences in who would most benefit from permanent daylight saving time. Lawmakers in Southern states such as Florida argue it would maximize sunshine for
their residents during the winter months — but some people who live in the northern United States or on the western edge of time zones, such as Indianapolis, would not see the sunrise on some
winter days until after 9 a.m.
While 64 percent of respondents to a March 2022 YouGov poll said they wanted to stop the twice-per-year changing of the clocks, only about half of the people who favored a change
wanted permanent daylight saving time, while about one-third supported permanent standard time and others were unsure. “We know that the majority of Americans do not want to keep
switching the clocks back and forth. Permanent standard time advocates don’t want children to wait in dark winter
mornings for a school bus; permanent daylight saving time proponents want to help businesses enjoy more sunshine during operating hours, she said.
A congressional aide who has been working on the issue put it more bluntly: “We’d be pissing off half the country no matter what,” said the aide, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal deliberations.
It’s also an issue that resonates abroad. Mexican lawmakers passed legislation last month to end daylight saving time in most of their country, a measure that
the nation’s president swiftly signed into law.
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President Richard Nixon tried permanent daylight time during the 1970s energy crisis, thinking it would reduce demand for power. It lasted eight months, withdrawn
after parents objected to sending their children to school in the dark. "
