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President-elect of the United States donald trump has announced that it will strive to end daylight saving time, the practice of turning clocks forward during the summer to take advantage of longer daylight hours.
In a posting on social networks On Friday, Trump said the conservative Republican Party would “use its best efforts” to end the practice, which he criticized as inefficient.
“The Republican Party will do everything they can to eliminate Daylight Savings Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but it shouldn’t!” he wrote “Daylight saving time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation.”
Trump is due to be sworn into office on January 20, and his incoming administration includes several members who are vocally opposed to daylight saving time.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, for example, has lobbied Congress several times to end the clock-changing practice, including one recently. like this year. In 2022, his bill, the Sun Protection Act, passed the Senate before ultimately failing to gain traction in the House of Representatives.
Rubio, who has been appointed as Trump’s secretary of state, has called daylight saving time a “stupid practice.”
Meanwhile, two close Trump allies, businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, openly weighed in on DST on social media platform X earlier this year.
Responding to a user’s complaint about Daylight Savings Time in November, Musk he wrote“Looks like people want to abolish annoying time changes!” Ramaswamy quickly he entered: “It’s inefficient (and) easy to change.”
Under Trump, the two businessmen have been tasked with leading a project that has yet to be established. non-governmental body called the Department of Government Efficiency, which will provide advice on how to streamline federal regulations, spending and bureaucracy.
But previous efforts to eliminate daylight saving time have fallen flat.
The practice was first instituted in the United States in 1918, as a means of conserving energy during World War I. The law mandating Daylight Saving Time was later repealed in 1919, shortly after the war ended.
But in 1942, after the start of World War II, the practice reemerged “to promote national security and defense.”
Since then, the merits of summer have been constantly debated in American politics, on both sides of the aisle.
Some argue that the practice of changing the clocks back and forth negatively affects the sleep patterns of humans, leading to an increased risk of health problems such as heart attacks. But a 2024 to study of the Mayo Clinic says the threat to heart health is “probably minimal.”
Today, most Americans turn their clocks back one hour in early November and forward one hour in mid-March.
So what’s known as “daylight time” runs from March to November, during the warmest summer months in the US. “Standard Time”, on the other hand, runs during the winter, from November to March.
Only two states opt for this practice: Arizona and Hawaii.
Still, many Americans support not having to change time periods twice a year. More than 60 percent of people say they would like to see clock-changing done away with, according to a 2023 poll by research firm YouGov.
About 50 percent of people admit that the time of day, and the subsequent sunrises and sunsets that accompany it, are permanent. About 32 percent, on the other hand, support that standard time, which comes with earlier sunrises and sunsets, is permanent.
Most countries they don’t have that practice, and some medical associations have said that making standard time permanent would more closely align with the sun’s natural cycle and people’s sleep needs.
