President-elect Trump vowed to work to eliminate daylight saving time, calling it "inconvenient" and "very costly."
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.
In a social media post President-Elect Trump expressed his intentions to end daylight saving time when he takes office... citing "inconvenience" and "cost" as the main reasons.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on social media that the time change is “inconvenient” and that the Republican Party would try to put an end to it.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday voiced his support for putting an end to daylight saving time. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said his party will try to stop the practice of changing clocks twice a year.
While the trial proved popular at first, approval ratings dropped by 1974, with one of the main complaints being the lack of sunlight on winter mornings, according to the Smithsonian Magazine. In October of that year, President Gerald Ford signed a bill that ended permanent daylight saving time, cutting the trial period short.
In a post on TruthSocial, Trump said he would work with Republicans to permanently eliminate daylight saving time during his second term.
It’s not clear whether Trump meant that he supports making daylight saving time permanent, or simply that he supports sticking with standard time, which began on Nov. 3 this yea
The U.S. is currently in standard time ‒ which moved the clocks back an hour on Nov. 3, resulting in early December sunsets that are often the subject of complaints. The nation is set to spring forward to daylight saving time again on March 9 of next year.
Staying on standard time would mean a change for sunrise and sunset times. Here’s a look at when sunrise and sunset would be near you.
The national buzz is around Daylight Saving Time after President-elect Donald Trump announced he wants to end America’s 100-year-old practice of “springing forward and “falling back.” Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942.