Trump vows to eliminate Daylight Saving Time
Trump vows to eliminate Daylight Saving Time
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
Finally something I can support
The Sunlight Protection Act has been put up several times and passed by the Senate as recently as 2022. It sits in a committee at this time. I'm sure trump will take credit if it works its way through.
I support standard time more, the 12 o clock at the center of the timezone should be noon, not having noon at 1PM, and day lengths are better on average without. DST makes it better, but only for sunset times, it makes the mornings drastically worse and I think employers and schools should just change their hours if they care so much about sunlight when they leave.
Just trying to distract the public from any number of his fucked up shit
Instead of squawking over which to have, how about we all just uze Zulu time and eliminate the timezone confusion as well?
I'm for permanent daylight. Not a morning person so i hate the sun coming up so early. The mornings should be dark and gloomy (because I have to go to work, work sucks) plus the added benefit of actually having some light when you get off work. The sun going down right when I'm finally off is kind of insulting and depressing.
Getting anyone to come to an agreement on this will be impossible since its based on preference.
this would be pretty good. i hope he's not full of shit on this one thing
I wonder how long until some special interest group like airlines come along and bribe him to change his mind, because it would be expensive for them to update their systems
Right after lowering grocery prices.
So states he can't fix greedflation and moves to checks notes ....eliminating daylight savings. Pretty fuckin low on the list...
Everyone can agree that changing the clocks is annoying, but having either of the two times for the full year is kind of shitty, too.
trump finds loophole that by turning back the clock one hour, every hour, he can legally freeze the time and bypass term limits.
I mean, if the time never legally reaches Jan 20, 2029, then he is still legally president
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Some people want DST all year and others want Standard, because depending on where in the country you live--the latitude you are at, and whether you live at the east or west edge of your time zone makes a big difference in your experience of them.
One solution is to adjust the time zone boundaries to make the timing work out better for different locations: making the lines a bit more diagonal will help, and/or add another zone so each zone is narrower and there's not as much difference in sunrise/sunset times from one edge to the other.
Another idea is, don't choose between DST and Standard, choose halfway between them: at the next time change, change it by only 1/2 hour instead of a full hour, and leave it there. This may sound strange but there are other countries whose times are offset by 1/2 hour from the others, so it's not that unusual. So you're halfway between DST and Standard all year round, so it's not a big difference and is a good compromise.
Of course it's always too dark in winter, but combine both of the above mitigations and you minimize any problems from leaving clocks the same all year, no matter what part of the country you live in.