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What time would the sun rise and set in Utah if daylight saving time became permanent?

Utah ski resorts have been against the proposal in the past.

(Francisco Kjolseth  | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Hall in March 2025. A federal measure to make daylight saving time permanent would mean later winter sunrises in the Beehive State.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Hall in March 2025. A federal measure to make daylight saving time permanent would mean later winter sunrises in the Beehive State.

Another year, another debate about daylight saving time.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent, meaning states would not change their clocks twice a year on the ‘spring forward’ or ‘fall back’ dates.

It now awaits approval from the Senate and a signature from President Donald Trump before it becomes law.

States may stay on standard time — the ‘fall back’ time observed from November through March — if an exemption is in place before the federal law takes effect. Arizona and Hawaii already use standard time year-round.

If the measure is signed into law, Utah has its own law that will automatically take effect, putting the state on permanent Mountain Daylight Time — or summertime hours — as long as at least four other Western states do the same.

That would mean the latest sunrise here would be at about 8:52 a.m. in the winter, while the earliest sunset would occur at about 5 p.m. The earliest summertime sunrise would happen a few minutes before 6 a.m., while the latest sunset would occur just after 9 p.m.

In 2022 — when the state Senate passed a similar proposal which stalled in the Utah House — Beehive State ski resorts opposed the move, saying it would delay avalanche control before opening.

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