Reporter's Notebook: Daylight saving time fight puts Senate up against a ticking clock

The U.S.

Senate is on the clock.

In a matter of speaking.

Or ticking.

The House of Representatives approved a bill earlier this year to thrust the nation onto permanent daylight saving time.

In other words, the House voted to ditch the twice-a-year ritual of springing forward and falling back.

Now it’s up to the Senate to sync up.

"Around the country, people are going to be excited because they don’t have to go back and forth," opined Sen.

Rick Scott, R-Fla., one of the biggest advocates of shifting to year-round daylight saving time.

Under this temporal regime, Florida and many southern states would benefit from "more" sun later in the afternoon and evening in the winter.

HOUSE PASSES DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME REFORM AS TRUMP SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR ENDING CLOCK CHANGE Scott isn’t the only one who says time should expire for daylight saving time.

"People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year.

It is foolish, inconvenient and, in some cases, very costly.

For Cities and States with Watchtowers, and hard to reach places, it costs Millions of Dollars," declared President Donald Trump in a post on his social media site Truth Social.