PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) - Lawmakers are pushing forward to move all of Florida to the Eastern time zone.An amendment to state bill SB 858 seeks year-round observance of daylight saving time as well ...

Florida lawmakers have introduced bills that would unify the entire state under the eastern time zone and eliminate daylight savings time, a move that would cause major time changes for northwest ...

In 1918, five time zones were officially adopted under the Standard Time Act as the U.S. entered World War I: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, and Alaskan.

Florida had an early start for its legislative session and two bills, SB 858 and HB 1013, would move the state into one time zone and makes DST permanent. That would make it easier for statewide ...

A proposal in the Florida Senate to move the entire state into the Eastern Time Zone and permanently keep daylight saving time has drawn bipartisan opposition from Northwest Florida senators. Sen ...

Currently, 10 counties — Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington, Bay, Jackson, Calhoun and part of Gulf — are in the Central time zone.

That puts Bristol on Eastern time and Blountstown one hour earlier, on Central time. That one hour is what trips up Debra Perdue. When she’s in Bristol and looks at a clock, she has to stop and ...

Such is the fate of the average people who get averaged out within our time zone’s borders. Central time afflicts St. Louis but also Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Memphis ...