19 states have “no more changing the clocks” laws passed, but aren’t allowed to do so without approval of the federal government?
It’s pretty obvious you can just do what you want these days, consequences are trivial to non-existent, so why don’t we just not change our clocks? (or change them and not change them back, whatever floats your boat)
The answer is that there is a law, The Uniform Time Act.
Ad to why we just don’t ignore it, I’m sure it’s because the support for it just isn’t strong enough to merit ignoring a federal law.
If States aren’t allowed to change their clock time, they could instead designate that standard work/business and school hours will shift to an hour later during DST (or I guess vice versa if they want to go the other way). That way everyone is still getting up and going to bed at the same actual time, even though it’s at a different clock time.
I wager we could get New Hampshire, Vermont, or Texas to challenge the uniform time act as a violation of the 9th amendment just for the fun of it.
I wouldn’t put it past California, either.