The measure, adopted unanimously in the Senate, but which did not pass the other chamber of Congress, would have made it possible to put an end to time changes. But it would also have meant very late sunrises in some states in winter.
“Changing time is an outdated concept, which is a source of frustration and confusion,” argued at the time Senator Marco Rubio, author of the bill and now designated next head of American diplomacy by Donald Trump .
He established a direct cause-and-effect link between time changes and an increase in “heart attacks and car accidents,” and touted the potential beneficial effects on the economy of permanent daylight saving time.
In 2019, when Marco Rubio launched a first bill in this direction, President Donald Trump tweeted: “Making daylight saving time permanent is OK for me!”
In Europe, the abandonment of time changes was adopted by the European Parliament in 2019, but its implementation has since been postponed many times.
