Trump Wants To End Daylight Savings Time

Clocks on the Wall. Credit: Maksym Kozlenko

President-Elect Donald Trump announced that he wants to end Daylight Savings Time in the United States.

"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," Trump stated on TruthSocial.com.

Trump's policy echoes that of close ally U.S. Senator Rick Scott who, as  former Florida Governor   signed a bill into law to put an end to the practice of setting clocks back and forward every six months.

As a U.S. Senator, Scott along with Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) reintroduced the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act, to end the twice-yearly time change and make Daylight Saving Time the national year-round standard. 

But both the Senate and House versions of the Sunshine Protection Act remain in committee.

History of Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time started in Europe during World War I as a way to economize fuel usage. The United States started Daylight Saving Time a year after WWI ended in 1918.

Benjamin Franklin did not propose Daylight Saving Time. This misconception grew out of the proverb “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” that was published in Franklin’s Poor Richards’ Almanac.

How to Correctly Spell Daylight Saving Time

Is it “Daylight Savings Time” or “Daylight Saving Time”? The correct term is without the “s” but the added “s” has become widely used in the United States.

Daylight Saving Time Bad For Your Health

Losing an hour of sleep is bad for your health, studies find. The overall rate for stroke was 8% higher and heart attacks 10% higher in the days following the daylight saving time change.

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