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Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the perfect-timing dept.

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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  1. About damned time by Y2K+is+bogus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trump says something that isn't completely idiotic!

    1. Re:About damned time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      And he even got the Daylight vs Standard Time distinction correct, and expressed a policy choice succinctly.

      Which means somebody else wrote the tweet.

    2. Re:About damned time by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

      About time he says something right. [paraphrased]

      You know what they say about a broken daylight savings clock being right twice a year.

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    3. Re:About damned time by rnturn · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah but there's always the chance that he said that because he thinks it's actually saving daylight.

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  2. knowing that guy... by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet he asked it be named, "Trump Standard Time". And maybe "Time Force" the second option.

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  3. It's not Daylight Savings Time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It's Daylight's Savings Times

  4. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!11111 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I swear to GOD. Kids fuck everything up.

  5. Re: Just pick a damned time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can I come visit you in binary world sometime, where people live either on the southern or northern border and the season is either the heart of summer or the deep of winter.

  6. Re: Just pick a damned time by Cederic · · Score: 3, Funny

    if you want to have a been

    What the fuck?

    The length of a daylight in a day does not change, regardless if the sun rises at 4am, 9pm or whatever

    No, but whether it's light when you go to work/school or light when you get home from work/school does change and does matter to people.