TAMPA, Fla. — As the temperatures start to slowly drop, Floridians will have to set back their clocks as daylight saving time ends.

We have this week to enjoy the longer days with more sunshine until the clocks change on Nov. 2. People across much of the United States will set their clocks to "fall back" one hour and gain an hour of sleep.

Once again, people will ask if permanent daylight saving time will ever become a thing, and in Florida, lawmakers keep pushing for it.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 mandates that the country use daylight saving time but allows states to opt out and exempt themselves from the practice to stay on standard time year-round. Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states that don't observe daylight saving time.

And Florida has already passed a measure to

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