Trump: Making daylight saving time permanent is 'OK with me'
Americans pushing for an end to the annual ritual of losing an hour's sleep on changing clocks to daylight savings time got a new ally Monday: President Donald Trump. US clocks go forward by an hour each spring and back an hour in November, ahead of winter. The switch, which took place at 2:00 am in Washington DC on Sunday, now means more daylight in the evenings. Left groggy by the disruption, critics say the back-and-forth of the clock is unnecessary and maybe even dangerous. Trump seems to agree. "Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!" he wrote on Twitter.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 11 March 2019
- Modified Date: 06:29 | 11 March 2019
President Donald Trump thinks it's a good idea if daylight saving time becomes permanent.
A federal law specifies that daylight time applies from 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March until 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November in areas that do not specifically exempt themselves. More than two dozen states are considering measures to avoid the twice-yearly clock change.
Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Vern Buchanan, both of Florida, introduced measures last week to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide. While federal law allows states to opt into standard time permanently — which Hawaii and Arizona have done — the reverse is prohibited and requires congressional action.
Trump tweeted Monday that making daylight saving time permanent is "O.K. with me!"