Trump vows to eliminate Daylight Saving Time

Right after lowering grocery prices.

So states he can't fix greedflation and moves to checks notes ....eliminating daylight savings. Pretty fuckin low on the list...

I'd rather be on savings time year round but yeah, the switch is the worst.

Broken clock.

Finally something I can support

The Sunlight Protection Act has been put up several times and passed by the Senate as recently as 2022. It sits in a committee at this time. I'm sure trump will take credit if it works its way through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act

Good.

The extra hour of sunshine cannot be good for global temperatures.

Just trying to distract the public from any number of his fucked up shit

I'm fine with that, but I think we should settle on Daylight Savings time. You know, when time is an hour ahead of what it is now.

Trump says lots of things.

Who knows which he will actually try to do?

Or how many of those things he will actually succeed at?

The fun is in trying to figure out how this will be profitable for him.

Fingers crossed that this gives us an extra hour of sunshine after work instead of before. It's so depressing to leave the office at 4pm and it's already dark out.

I support standard time more, the 12 o clock at the center of the timezone should be noon, not having noon at 1PM, and day lengths are better on average without. DST makes it better, but only for sunset times, it makes the mornings drastically worse and I think employers and schools should just change their hours if they care so much about sunlight when they leave.

Instead of squawking over which to have, how about we all just uze Zulu time and eliminate the timezone confusion as well?

this would be pretty good. i hope he's not full of shit on this one thing

Extra hour of sunlight for golf no doubt.

I'm for permanent daylight. Not a morning person so i hate the sun coming up so early. The mornings should be dark and gloomy (because I have to go to work, work sucks) plus the added benefit of actually having some light when you get off work. The sun going down right when I'm finally off is kind of insulting and depressing.

Getting anyone to come to an agreement on this will be impossible since its based on preference.

Honestly I'd rather have the switch than permanent daylight.

I wonder how long until some special interest group like airlines come along and bribe him to change his mind, because it would be expensive for them to update their systems

As a programmer, software and operating system enthusiast that keeps up with time zone rule changes to keep legacy operating systems updated, I absolutely hate whenever they fuck with the time zone rules.

All the devices out there that are pre-programmed to change the daylight savings time automatically will need to be updated to continue working correctly, or some may have to be manually corrected twice a year.

If it counts for anything though, modern operating systems and devices would end up getting the appropriate updates from their relevant update servers, and phones will just get their time from the cell towers.

When you get down to it though, it doesn't make the days any longer or shorter, it's just the numbers we assign to the clock. The sun is still gonna rise and set just like it always has, longer days in the summer and shorter days in the winter.

Some people want DST all year and others want Standard, because depending on where in the country you live--the latitude you are at, and whether you live at the east or west edge of your time zone makes a big difference in your experience of them.

One solution is to adjust the time zone boundaries to make the timing work out better for different locations: making the lines a bit more diagonal will help, and/or add another zone so each zone is narrower and there's not as much difference in sunrise/sunset times from one edge to the other.

Another idea is, don't choose between DST and Standard, choose halfway between them: at the next time change, change it by only 1/2 hour instead of a full hour, and leave it there. This may sound strange but there are other countries whose times are offset by 1/2 hour from the others, so it's not that unusual. So you're halfway between DST and Standard all year round, so it's not a big difference and is a good compromise.

Of course it's always too dark in winter, but combine both of the above mitigations and you minimize any problems from leaving clocks the same all year, no matter what part of the country you live in.

He'll probably fuck it up by pushing for year-round DST (where the sun wouldn't rise until after 8 AM in the winter).

trump finds loophole that by turning back the clock one hour, every hour, he can legally freeze the time and bypass term limits.

I mean, if the time never legally reaches Jan 20, 2029, then he is still legally president

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https://youtu.be/TmoeZHnOJKA?t=23

don't states decide this? granted I would love to go the reverse and daylight savings all the time as I prefer the light later.

Great, do timezones next!

Such news!!! Such distraction!!! Make daylight great again!!!

Everyone can agree that changing the clocks is annoying, but having either of the two times for the full year is kind of shitty, too.