Tag Archives: Daylight Saving Time

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said the Republican Party would try to eliminate daylight saving time, calling it “inconvenient” and “costly.” “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump posted on Truth …

NBC News reports: Since 2018, nearly all states have passed or entertained legislation that would drop the twice-a-year time shift. And 19 states have passed laws or resolutions in support of year-round daylight saving time, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures. But there’s a caveat: Nothing can change until Congress addresses a 1960s-era law blocking such …

Dallas’s NBC affiliate reports: Rep. Matt Shaheen, (R-Plano) wants this weekend to be the last time you changed your clocks. Shaheen says he believes bills may have a better chance this time because he is hearing about this more often from constituents. His bill would also put the whole state on the same clock. Right now, El Paso and some …

The Independent reports: President Donald Trump weighed in on a hot debate regarding Daylight Saving Time (DST) this week, saying he is “O.K” with making it permanent in the United States. The tweet comes on the heels of “The Sunshine Protection Act,” a congressional bill, introduced on Wednesday by Florida Republicans Rep. Vern Buchanan and Sen. Marco Rubio, that would …