Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com)

President Trump on Monday threw his support behind efforts to keep the United States permanently on daylight saving time, which took effect Sunday morning. "Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!" Trump tweeted. The Hill reports: California and several other states are considering measures that would end the biannual clock changes between standard and daylight saving time. Three GOP lawmakers from Florida introduced legislation in Congress this month that would end the November clock change from daylight saving time back to standard time. The measures, introduced by Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott and Rep. Vern Buchanan, would keep the country in daylight saving time, the clock change made in early March that is observed by most states for eight months of the year. Rubio introduced a similar measure in 2018. That bill did not advance in the Senate.

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To kill fewer children.

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I never really understood why we "fell back" to standard time during winter, the one time of the year where the extra hour of daylight in the evening was the most useful.

To kill fewer children - as was noticed when the US went to year-round daylight savings time during the "energy crisis" (Arab oil embargo) of the Nixon years.

In the northern tiers of states (where the length of the day changes the most), children were going to school in the dark while sleepy drivers were commuting. This resulted in a substantial increase in the number of kids injured or killed in car-vs.-pedestrian accidents.

But I guess, in these enlightened times, it's now OK to kill a bunch of kids in order to "send a message" about saving energy.