(CNN) The news Wednesday night that lawmakers in Florida were more united around instituting daylight savings year-round than they were around new gun laws likely does not presage a new and overriding national movement to spring forward and stay there, like Florida wants to.

A lot still has to happen, according to CNN's report , if Floridians are to buck most of the rest of the country and stay lit all year long; including a signature from the governor and authorization from Congress to exempt them from the Uniform Time Act of 1966.

How will the rest of the East Coast react to the idea of a de facto new time zone -- Florida time -- during the winter months?

The bill to permanently enshrine Daylight Saving Time passed through Florida's House and Senate without much opposition. It's a big switch from the huge opposition to the first iteration of the law 100 years ago. When Woodrow Wilson vetoed Congress' attempt to do away with the first time-saving law, lawmakers overruled his veto.

It was brought back during World War II, and then permanently in 1966, and expanded three times, including in 2005 -- the slow creep of daylight savings to take over more of the calendar -- from about six months of the calendar in 1966 to about eight months of the calendar today.

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