Donald Trump is fed up with the time change so he wants to eliminate daylight saving time

UNITED STATES – This is a promise already made by Europe but which cannot manage to implement it. Perhaps Donald Trump will have more success, he who will become president again on January 20. He promised this Friday that he will focus on “eliminate daylight saving time” in the United States. Objective: to avoid the biannual time changes that he and Elon Musk hate.

“Summer time is inconvenient and very costly for our country”said the president-elect on his Truth Social platform. Elon Musk, the multibillionaire recently appointed by Donald Trump to head a commission to cut public spending, commented on a poll on his social network X at the end of November, according to which more than 80% of voters said they wanted to eliminate the hour summer.

“It seems people want to abolish annoying time changes! »wrote the boss of SpaceX and Tesla.

But Donald Trump’s desire to eliminate summer time appears to contradict the majority position of the Republican Party, which, in 2022, launched a bill to make it permanent. 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.

When Trump wanted to make summer time permanent

“Changing time is an outdated concept, which causes frustration and confusion”supported at the time Senator Marco Rubio, author of the bill and today designated next head of American diplomacy by Donald Trump. He established a direct cause and effect link between time changes and the increase “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 DST permanent is OK with me!” »

The main idea behind the time change was originally to match activity hours and daylight hours to limit the use of artificial lighting. But its detractors denounce the negative effects on biological rhythms, particularly in children. In Europe, the abandonment of time changes was adopted by the European Parliament in 2019, but its implementation has since been postponed many times.

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