{"id":3759,"date":"2019-10-16T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2019-10-16T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:38:06","slug":"what-happened-to-year-round-daylight-saving-time-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/what-happened-to-year-round-daylight-saving-time-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to year-round daylight saving time in Florida?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the passage of a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, we will still turn our clocks forward Sunday Nov. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/03tY2E96LjpsA1GmulH2vCBhbMuA3465OdLLGmAh4XWJOLAVg_2uiQMn2ph61UlEa6TzF91VOvRSGhT8LbDrSS9KmcpBAbcrG4Px3bX7fcvxMFyk7Mfecqt7REoTJrKL7pUxFzM=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=3mFyiL_0HHJjlPw00&amp;type=_580x000&amp;net=wifi\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Gov. Rick Scott signed the \u201cSunshine Protection Act\u201d in March of 2017, but Congress must amend federal law before it can go into effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott said he supported the move because it would help the state&#8217;s tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the rest of the eastern United States would set their clocks back in the fall, Florida wouldn&#8217;t, leaving it with more sunshine in the evening during the winter. Northwest Florida is currently in the Central time zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no movement during the last congressional session so the bill will likely have to be reintroduced.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the passage of a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, we will still turn our clocks forward Sunday Nov. 3. Former Gov. Rick Scott signed the \u201cSunshine&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}