President-elect Donald Trump announced this Friday that he will work to end the “inconvenient” custom of set clocks forward one hour every springwhich according to him represents an unnecessary financial burden for USA.
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong following, but it shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time (DST) is inconvenient and very costly to our nation,” Trump posted on his network social Truth Social.
Trump’s message on his social network Truth Social.
Daylight saving time was adopted by the federal government during World War I, but was unpopular with farmers and was quickly abolished. Many states experimented with their own versions until it was reintroduced nationwide in 1967.
ANDl US Senatecontrolled by Democrats, presented a bill in 2022 that, like Trump’s plan, would end the twice-yearly time change, in favor of a “permanent new standard time.”
But the Sunlight Protection Law proposed the opposite change — permanently sticking to daylight saving time rather than eliminating it — to make way for brighter afternoons and fewer trips home in the dark for students and office workers.
The bill never reached President Joe Biden’s desk as it was not approved by the Republican-led House of Representatives.
It had been introduced in 2021 by a Republican, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is about to join the incoming Trump administration as Secretary of State. At the time, he said studies had shown that a permanent DST could benefit the economy.
In any case, the elimination of time change It would put an end to Americans setting their clocks forward in the spring and setting them back an hour in the fall.
The clamor to make daylight saving time permanent has grown in recent years, especially among politicians and lobby groups in the Northeast, where winter mornings are often frigid.
Any changes are unlikely to affect Hawaii and most of Arizona, the Navajo Nation, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which do not set the clock ahead in the summer.
