Donald Trump Wants To Eliminate 'Very Costly' Daylight Saving Time in USA
Donald Trump, the US president-elect, declared on wednesday that he will work to end Daylight Saving Time (DST), calling it a "very costly" element for the US. Trump, who is scheduled to become the presidency in january 2025, claimed that the DST "shouldn't" have a tiny but powerful following.
"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," the President-elect said in a post on X.
Nearly 400 million people in North America are impacted by daylight saving time, which was first implemented as a military measure in 1942. Every now and again, the system becomes the focus of a discussion in which some individuals wonder if it is still necessary.
In order to maximize daylight throughout the summer, DST necessitates clock adjustments twice a year, moving the clock one hour forward in the spring and one hour behind in the fall.
The most recent attempt to promote the system was through the now-stalled "Sunshine Protection Act," a bipartisan initiative that sought to permanently implement daylight saving time.
In order to maximize daylight throughout the summer, DST necessitates clock adjustments twice a year, moving the clock one hour forward in the spring and one hour behind in the fall.
The most recent attempt to promote the system was through the now-stalled "Sunshine Protection Act," a bipartisan initiative that sought to permanently implement daylight saving time.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Trump's nominee to lead the State Department, sponsored this.
Florida Republican senator Rick Scott declared, "Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary," as the Senate approved the bill.
In contrast to politicians, health experts have stated that they should make the standard time permanent, according to an ap story.
Notably, there is no clock change in Arizona or Hawaii. Permanent standard time is also observed in the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Daylight Saving Time
For almost a century, the American, Canadian, and Cuban cultures have been ingrained with the custom of changing the clock twice a year.
DST always begins on the second sunday in march and ends on the first sunday in november in the United States. DST will start on march 9 and run until november 2 in 2025.
George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, came up with the concept to save electricity and prolong summer daylight hours, which would have helped his personal after-work bug collecting pastime.
Even though the concept took a little to catch on, it gained momentum during World war One, when european governments looked for any way to save gasoline.
In 1916, germany became the first nation to implement daylight saving time, and in 1918, the united states did the same.
The US DST dispute stems from the system's alleged negative health impacts, which include an increase in deadly road accidents, heart attacks, strokes, and sleep deprivation in the days after the clocks' annual march advance.