In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states to opt out.
It would save me some trouble at work for sure. We have to match timezones and calculate utc from local timestamps for millions of transactions a day from across the country. If local time and timezone was just utc, that saves me the extra steps.
Though days suddenly get really messed up. It would be “tomorrow” in the east coast before it is even dark in the summer. And, worse, it would be “tomorrow” in Hawaii a bit after lunch. In a practical sense that just seems confusing and annoying, so maybe it’s not the most practical outside of datetime data.