Trump's Push to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent

Letter: Should we mandate daylight saving time year-round?

To the editor: Did you dread losing that hour of sleep in March when clocks “sprang forward”? Were you at least consoled knowing you’d get it back in November? Unfortunately, a bill moving through Congress would make that lost hour of sleep permanent. The Sunshine Protection Act would mandate daylight saving time (DST) year-round, which physicians, sleep experts, and other health organizations and public safety groups overwhelmingly oppose. DST …

Trump’s next loyalty test: Ending the changing of the clocks

U.S. President Donald Trump is setting up his latest loyalty test on Capitol Hill — and it’s not about the war in Iran, Cabinet nominees or his White House ballroom. Instead, the president is lobbying GOP lawmakers on a plan to make daylight saving time permanent, meaning more daylight in the evening hours and an end to the twice-yearly clock-resetting ritual observed in most states. Trump has fixated on this issue, believing it resonates with v…

Trump's Push to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent

Legislative efforts to make daylight saving time permanent year round got a boost with support from President Donald Trump, who criticized the twice-yearly clock switching as cost-prohibitive. But there is no strong evidence that Trump’s solution — switching permanently to daylight saving time — would provide the economic boost Trump suggests it would. The Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent year round unless…

Trump has a new GOP loyalty test — but voters might actually like it this time

President Donald Trump is cooking up a new loyalty test for GOP lawmakers, this time driven by clocks, according to Politico, and while the rest of his agenda might be increasingly toxic with voters, this one might actually prove to be fairly popular.As Politico revealed in a Friday morning report, Trump "is lobbying GOP lawmakers on a plan to make daylight saving time permanent, meaning more daylight in the evening hours and an end to the twice…

Trump Fixates on Daylight Saving Time

“Donald Trump is setting up his latest loyalty test on Capitol Hill — and it’s not about the war in Iran, Cabinet nominees or his White House ballroom,” Politico reports.“Instead, the president is lobbying GOP lawmakers on a plan to make daylight saving time permanent, meaning more day