Americans will still turn their clocks back one hour on Nov. 1, 2026, after the Senate failed to advance legislation that would have ended the twice-yearly time change, leaving the House-passed Sunshine Protection Act stalled amid Republican resistance in the upper chamber.

The U.S. House voted 308-117 on July 14 to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide and eliminate the practice of adjusting clocks each spring and fall. But the Senate's companion bill, S.29, has not advanced, and as of Aug. 2, the legislation had not passed the Senate or been signed by the president. Absent action from Congress before Nov. 1, the biannual clock change will proceed as scheduled under the Uniform Time Act, with most of the country turning clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. local time that Sunday. Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time and will not be affected by the change.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has expressed reservations about imposing a uniform national clock mandate, and Sen. Tom Cotton has told Thune's office directly that he intends to block the bill from reaching the Senate floor, a position Cotton has also defended publicly in a Senate floor speech. Cotton has warned that permanent daylight saving time would produce........

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