[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Some states such as Arizona have done this on their own. I'm not sure the congressional approval is necessary for a state to do it.

However if every state did something different, it would really make a mess. But time zones as they are currently drawn are quite a mess. Some states have little isolated areas that have decided to be in a different time zone. The Hoover Dam is in two different time zones and people that work there have to deal with that.

My idea would be to turn the clocks back a half hour everywhere and leave them alone. Of course, we'd have to get Arizona and any other states that are on permanent time to go along.

I'm not sure that I'd like to stay on DST here in this area. As it is, right now, it doesn't get light until 7:00 am. If I'm not mistaken, originally, the idea of changing the time was so that school children would be going to school in the dark in the morning. In places that have school busses, kids would be waiting at bus stops in the dark.