SACRAMENTO — There will be no rest for the weary Californian, tired of changing the clocks from standard to daylight-saving time and back, year after year.

Despite growing momentum to adopt permanent daylight-saving time in the state — including a successful ballot measure and new laws in Oregon and Washington — the legislator who made it his signature issue in Sacramento has dropped his bid to get California on the spring-forward schedule year-round.

Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, said he would not push in the final days of the legislative session to pass AB7, which would have moved the state to daylight saving time all year instead of from March to November.

Chu plans to revisit the issue again next year, though he is now considering a proposal for year-round standard time instead.

“One way or another, we’re going to push it through,” he said. “The people have spoken.”

Chu has spent more than three years trying to keep California from springing forward and falling back, a practice that he considers antiquated, pointless and detrimental to health and public safety because it disrupts sleep patterns.

Voters cleared the path in November when they overwhelmingly passed an initiative giving the Legislature power to try to change to year-round daylight-saving time in California, which would require a two-thirds vote of both the Assembly and Senate. Congress would still have to approve the switch.

The ballot campaign had the unusual, perhaps unprecedented, distinction of attracting exactly zero dollars from either supporters or opponents.

Oregon and Washington removed one potential obstacle by adopting their own legislation earlier this year to move to permanent daylight saving time if all three West Coast states agree to the change.

But the logistics of such a switch are complicated. While many Californians are excited by the idea of leaving work in the winter when the sun is still out, others worry about losing the morning light and sending their children to school in the dark.

In San Francisco, for example, the sun would rise on the winter solstice — Dec. 21 — at about 8:20 a.m.

Despite passing the Assembly unanimously in May, AB7 stalled in its first Senate committee in June because of concerns about how it would be implemented. Sen. Ben Hueso, the San Diego Democrat who chairs the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, said he had heard from constituents who frequently cross the border for work and were worried that it would be confusing for California to be out of sync with Mexico, which observes daylight-saving time.

“It was not heavily lobbied, but we got a lot of calls in the district office,” Hueso said.

Chu said he ultimately decided not to pursue the measure as more people contacted him to say they’d rather stay on standard time all year.

That’s a much easier lift, because it does not require congressional approval. Arizona and Hawaii observe only standard time.

No state is currently on year-round daylight saving time, though Florida first passed a law in 2018 to make the switch, if Congress allows it. So far the effort has gone nowhere in the nation’s capital. Several of the Sunshine State’s federal representatives have separately introduced legislation to adopt permanent daylight saving time at the national level, an idea that has President Trump’s seal of approval.

“Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!” Trump tweeted in March.

Chu said he would do more community outreach this fall, and perhaps a survey, to find out whether Californians would prefer year-round standard time. Though he’s partial to daylight saving time himself, he said he sees benefits to the other approach.

“We don’t have to wait for the federal government,” he said. “If we can accomplish not switching back and forth, it will be good.”

Either way, he’ll have the vote of supporters like Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a San Diego Democrat who co-authored AB7 but prefers the idea of permanent standard time herself. She hates trying to wake up her kids in the days after the clock changes.

“Let’s pick one and stick with it,” she said. “It would cause less craziness.”

Alexei Koseff is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: alexei.koseff@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @akoseff