Trump Daylight Saving Time: Trump Announces Plan to Eliminate Daylight Saving Time, Calling It ‘Very Costly’

Trump Daylight Saving Time: Trump Announces Plan to Eliminate Daylight Saving Time, Calling It ‘Very Costly’

Trump announces plan to end daylight saving time, calling it 'very costly'
Trump says his party will try to abolish daylight saving time.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that his party would try to end it Summer time which is very inconvenient and costly for the country. “The Republican Party will do its best to make this happen Eliminate Daylight Saving Timewhich has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! “Daylight saving time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation,” Trump declared. The announcement was expected as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – the two heads of the Ministry of Government Efficiency – recently suggested ending the bi-annual ritual. “Everything I wish for my birthday is the abolition of daylight saving time,” said one post, to which Elon Musk responded positively. “It is inefficient and easy to change,” Ramaswamy said.
Americans set their clocks forward twice a year – forward one hour in March and back one hour in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks move forward one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time (which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight saving time). On the first Sunday in November, clocks go back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight saving time (which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time). These dates were set by Congress in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Not all places in the USA observe daylight saving time. Hawaii and most of Arizona use standard time only.
Daylight saving time began on January 6th in 1974 and February 23rd in 1975. After these two years, the start date fell again on the last Sunday in April. In 1986, a law was passed that postponed the start of daylight saving time to the first Sunday in April from 1987. The end date of daylight saving time was not subject to these changes and remained the last Sunday in October. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed both the start and end dates. As of 2007, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
A practice begun long ago for emergencies has persisted in practice, although many believe it has become unnecessary over time. A 2016 study by Chmura Economics & Analytics estimates that daylight saving time costs the U.S. more than $430 million annually. The double time change has also been blamed for the increase in adverse health effects such as heart attacks and strokes caused by the time change.

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