DONALD Trump has vowed to ban daylight saving time after a years-long battle to end the annoying tradition.


Americans could finally get permanent standard time once Trump takes office in January.



President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a Time magazine Person of the Year event on Thursday


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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a Time magazine Person of the Year event on ThursdayCredit: AP


Melania and Donald Trump during the partial solar eclipse in Washington, DC, in August 2017


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Melania and Donald Trump during the partial solar eclipse in Washington, DC, in August 2017Credit: Alamy Live News

The president-elect vowed to do his best to make the change on Truth Social on Friday.


“The Republican Party will do its utmost to abolish Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong support base, but it shouldn’t!” Trump wrote this in Truth Social on Friday.


“Daylight saving time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation.”


Changing the clocks twice a year has been controversial for decades, even prompting 45 states to ban the event in the past decade.


Daylight Savings Time, which began in 1918, begins each year on the second Sunday in March, when the clocks jump forward one hour.


The clocks then fall back on the first Sunday in November.


This isn’t the first time Trump has raised the issue; he also showed support for a more consistent national schedule five years ago.


“I’m fine with making daylight saving time permanent!” Trump tweeted during his presidency on March 11, 2019, a day after Americans lost their hour of sleep.


A permanent time change would mean the US would remain in summer hours year-round.


Some states, including Arizona and Hawaii, already follow these rules.


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Most of America is observing the annual change, which was first implemented to save energy.


Only Congress can change the observance of daylight saving time.


Trump joins states like Florida and Tennessee, which have already passed bills calling for a permanent year-round ban.


The U.S. Senate also tried to fix the unpopular rule by unanimously passing the Sunshine Protection Act in March 2022, but the changes stalled.



States that do not observe daylight saving time




The history of daylight saving time dates back to 1918. However, some states and territories do not adhere to the practice, including:




  • Arizona

  • Hawaii

  • American Samoa

  • Guam

  • The Northern Mariana Islands

  • Puerto Rico

  • The US Virgin Islands





State lawmakers aren’t the only ones calling for change.


Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, both tapped to lead Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, showed support for banning daylight saving time last month.


“It seems like people want to get rid of the annoying time changes!” Musk wrote on X, which he owns.


Ramaswamy responded“It’s inefficient and easy to change.”


Donald Trump Jr. agreedsaying, “Let it always be daylight saving time.”


DAYLIGHT SAVING ONLY


Banning the clock change would be great news for more than two-thirds of Americans who want to ban daylight saving time, according to a survey. YouGov poll.


People fear daylight saving time because the change disrupts sleep and productivity, according to a recent survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by Talker Research.


Survey results showed that 40% of people begin to feel a sense of anxiety, what some call daylight saving time anxiety, about 11 days before the clocks go forward or back.



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The tense feeling reportedly doesn’t go away until about 13 days after the change.


Only about a third of respondents said the sleep trade-off is worth it, which could be because 77% of people said they feel more energetic when the sun is shining.



Trump looks at his watch during a campaign rally in Newport News, Virginia, in September 2020


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Trump looks at his watch during a campaign rally in Newport News, Virginia, in September 2020Credit: AP


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