By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-13 21:58:05 | Updated at 2024-12-24 12:24:09
1 week ago
Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time
AP ^ | 12/13/2024 | JILL COLVIN
Posted on 12/13/2024 1:51:42 PM PST by DFG
President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time.
In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to office.
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” he wrote.
Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942.
Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether. The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act, had proposed making daylight saving time permanent.
The measure was sponsored by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump has tapped to helm the State Department.
“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said as the Senate voted in favor of the measure.
Health experts have said that lawmakers have it backward and that standard time should be made permanent.
Some health groups, including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said that it’s time to do away with time switches and that sticking with standard time aligns better with the sun — and human biology.
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1 posted on 12/13/2024 1:51:42 PM PST by DFG
To: DFG
2 posted on 12/13/2024 1:53:04 PM PST by farmguy ( )
To: farmguy
3 posted on 12/13/2024 1:53:45 PM PST by farmguy ( )
To: DFG
Why does the US Government still operate as if the Great Depression, WW2 and the Cold War are still going on?
4 posted on 12/13/2024 1:53:48 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
To: DFG
By all means let’s spring forward this year and stay there.
To: DFG
Health experts have said that lawmakers have it backward and that standard time should be made permanent.
It shouldn’t matter. I would be fine if standard time was made permanent and each state had the option of moving one time zone to the east. This might be a good option because I’ve long believed that so much of the political pressure surrounding DST historically comes from the large population centers located in the easternmost parts of their respective time zones (Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, etc.).
6 posted on 12/13/2024 1:57:22 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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