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.

Comments

Just pick a damned time

[Snotnose]

I don't care if it's DST or standard, just quit changing the damn thing twice a year. Myself, I prefer it getting darker later, whichever one that is. But I don't care enough to change my damned sleep cycle twice a year.

Re:Just pick a damned time

[Rick Schumann]

DST was originally to benefit farmers whose workday was dictated by daylight hours. Since that's not an issue anymore we don't need DST.

Re:Just pick a damned time

[angel'o'sphere]

No, the idea was to save electricity, as in switching on lights later etc.
For farmers it does not matter at all, they don't care what time is displayed on their watch.

Re:Just pick a damned time

[magarity]

Then again, I'm sort of a diehard UTC person. College caught me that who cares what time you wake up on the clock. Especially with the global economy I know business meetings across 4 timezones and all their nuances would go a lot smoother if we just set UTC meeting times.

China has all one time zone - it's rather strange to fly west 4 hours and not change your watch. And the sun comes up at 3 am. Although their mentality about it is that Beijing is the center of their universe so everyone is on that city's time.

Re:Just pick a damned time

[yorgasor]

They never did. They get up when the animals do or when the fields need taking care of. They couldn't care less what the clock says.

Standard all year

[Anonymous Coward]

Thoose advocating year round DST don't remember the disaster in the mid-70s. The country switched to year round DST for two years. It was quickly killed for many reasons. Scvhool children going to class in the dark was one, another was that people in cold country discovered that an extra hour of sun in the evening was of no benefit, but darkness until 8:320 or 9 was a pain.
I hope rational heads will prevail on this, at a minimum keep the current system, or better yet, kill DST altogether.

Re:Daylight Saving Time

[mark-t]

It doesn't save any daylight though... it steels some from the morning to add some in the evening.

And considering the proven health benefits that exist for having exposure to the sun in the morning, it's better from a health-perspective if the sun rises earlier rather than later anyways, so the entire concept of DST Is just plain fucking stupid, completely ignoring human biology and fundamental truths about how humans have adapted and evolved.

Re:About damned time

[bobbied]

Trump says something that isn't completely idiotic!

Love him or hate him, Maybe you should be listening to what he says and tweets more often... Where he is often what you apparently expect, he has said a lot of things which are quite insightful, even more so than this statement. Trust me, the guy is not dumb or even crazy as some claim, he's just not very polished or PC in what he says so it's easy to make fun of him.