On Monday, December 21, 2026 -- the shortest day of the year -- Madison Wisconsin will have 8 hours 59 minutes and 44 seconds of daylight. It won't matter if the Central Time Zone is on standard or daylight time. There will not be any shortening of the amount of daylight the city experiences on the day when winter begins. Or any other day, for that matter.
Making Daylight Saving Time permanent will push the Madison sunrise to 8:25 a.m. on December 21st. I imagine many parents will be thrilled to no end to have their children leave for school when it's still dark out.
Meteorological data: Time and Date (highlight and box added)
Headline: New York Times, 7/14/2026
Olivia Diaz reports:
The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to make daylight saving time permanent, but the measure to spare Americans the semiannual clock-changing that shortens winter days faces an uncertain path to enactment.
The measure, fittingly named the “Sunshine Protection Act,” passed on a 308-to-117 vote. Its fate is murky in the Senate, where one G.O.P. leader said it was unclear whether it could move ahead and at least one Republican appears inclined to try to block it.
President Trump has championed the effort to save an extra hour of daylight before nightfall and make the time zone permanent, describing the ritual of moving clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall a “ridiculous, twice yearly production.”
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