US President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that when he returns to power on January 20, his party will work to “eliminate daylight saving time” in the United States. “Daylight saving time is inconvenient and very expensive,” he wrote on his social network Truth Social.
Elon Musk, the multibillionaire recently appointed by Donald Trump to head a commission to slash public spending, commented on a survey on his social network summer time. “It seems that people want to abolish the annoying time changes!”, wrote the boss of SpaceX and Tesla.
But Donald Trump’s desire to eliminate daylight saving time appears to contradict the majority position of the Republican Party. In 2022, he launched a bill to make it permanent.
Change postponed in the EU
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“Changing time is an outdated concept, which is a source of frustration and confusion,” argued at the time Senator Marco Rubio, author of the bill and now designated next head of American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.” He touted the potential economic benefits of permanent daylight saving time.
The main idea behind the time change was originally to match activity hours and daylight hours to limit the use of artificial lighting.
In Europe, the abandonment of time changes was adopted by the European Parliament in 2019, but its implementation has since been postponed many times.
This article was automatically published. Sources: ats / afp
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