- Nevada’s state assembly has passed a bill that would do away with daylight saving time in the state. It now moves on to the Senate. If passed and signed by the governor, residents would no longer change their clocks starting in January 2026.
As if time weren’t difficult enough to track in Las Vegas (especially inside its many casinos), state officials in Nevada are now one step closer to passing a bill that will end the observance of daylight saving time in the state.
The “Lock the Clock Act,” formally known as Assembly Bill 81, has passed through the state assembly by a vote of 27-15. It now moves on to the state senate.
The bill would do away with the observance of daylight saving time and keep Nevada on standard time year-round. If it passes, that would go into effect beginning in January 2026.
While it passed by a wide margin, the bill did face some opposition, with some assembly members arguing they would prefer to observe daylight saving year round, as it would mean more light in the summer evenings, which would benefit the state’s restaurants and golf courses. The bill’s sponsor said it was against federal law to maintain daylight saving time year-round.
Nevada has made progress, but it’s hardly the only state to contemplate doing away with daylight saving time. Legislation is being proposed or underway in nearly two dozen states regarding daylight saving ime. Seven states— Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania—have all proposed observing daylight saving time year-round. Mississippi proposed a similar bill, but that one did not proceed beyond committee.
President Donald Trump has made his thoughts on daylight saving time clear, as well, calling it “inconvenient” and “very costly to our Nation” in posts on Truth Social last year. He pledged previously to do away with the time change, but so far, has made no move to do so. (Elon Musk has also expressed an interest in doing away with time changes.)
Congress is the only government body that can legally oversee time changes. And while there have been bipartisan efforts to make daylight saving time permanent and end the changing of clocks, none have ever gotten anywhere. The most recent came in 2024, but the one that made the most progress was a 2022 bill that was passed by the U.S. Senate, which would have made daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023. The bill died in the House, though, never coming to a vote.
