Long-running disenchantment with twice-a-year time changes finally gathered enough momentum to make it to the California ballot as Proposition 7, and voters on Tuesday approved the idea of making Daylight Saving Time last all year.

Proposition 7 won’t change the current spring forward, fall back ritual but it does encourage state lawmakers to enact year round Daylight Saving Time.

Changing the time regime in California requires approval by voters since Daylight Saving Time was first approved by ballot measure in 1949. But Proposition 7 is mostly symbolic because officially changing Daylight Saving Time — which runs from mid-March to early November — requires an act of Congress, which standardized time across the country, more or less, with the Universal Time Act of 1966. States can opt out of Daylight Saving — Hawaii and much of Arizona don’t observe it — but can’t unilaterally keep it all year.

Florida earlier this year passed legislation to make Daylight Saving year-round, and is asking Congress to approve the change, and make it nation-wide. Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Wyoming have all considered permanent Daylight Saving.

California Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, spearheaded the bid to abandon the “standard time” period of the year for 12-month Daylight Saving after first proposing making the whole year standard time and getting blowback from youth sports leagues that wanted daylight for weekday practices and games. Chu co-sponsored AB 807, which passed through the legislature, received Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature of approval on June 28, and made it to the ballot as Proposition 7.

Chu has cited studies suggesting the spring time change brings a heightened risk of car accidents and heart attacks, as people can lose an hour of sleep. He has called the time change a public safety issue.

But a fellow legislator suggested the measure was a solution in search of a problem.

“It’s fixing something that is not broken,” Jim Nielsen, R-Tehama said in June. “Our society has acculturated itself to Daylight Savings Time. I think it would create too much confusion to change it again.”

Critics of the measure also raised public safety concerns, arguing that without the “fall back” time change in November, children would be going to school in the dark.

Having year-round Daylight Saving Time would mean less sunlight at the start of school and work days but more at the end. In the Bay Area, sunrise on Dec. 1, for example, would be at 8:05 a.m. instead of 7:05 a.m., and on Feb. 1, it would be 8:13 a.m. instead of 7:13 a.m.

This effort to extend Daylight Saving Time got further than a predecessor. A 2016 assembly bill that was similar to the legislation that led to Proposition 7 died in the state Senate.