By The Opinion
03 Dec 2024, 22:13 PM EST
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy They are suggesting that the country abandons its biannual ritual of turning the time back and forthand advocate for a permanent end to time changes, leaving daylight saving time unchanged throughout the year.
Both businessmen asked in a series of posts on X last week, that The United States stopped changing its clocks twice a year.
Musk declared that Americans want their country to “eliminate annoying time changes” and Ramaswamy described the centuries-old practice as “inefficient and easy to change.”
Although neither gave more details about their possible plans and their Department of Government Efficiency is an advisory committee that can make recommendations but cannot set policy, support from members of Trump’s circle is likely. could potentially help advance the proposal.
Congress has made several attempts to make daylight saving time permanent. Since 2018, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has co-sponsored a bill called the “Sunlight Protection Act” that, if passed, would end the country’s biannual daylight savings time changes, but it was not put to a vote.
For decades, states have adjusted their clocks twice a year (in November and March, as decided in 2007) to help Americans have more access to sunlight during the changing seasons. However, some people feel that the adjustment is too much of a burden for constantly changing schedules.
In the United States, there are states and territories that They do not observe the time change.
According to the Council of State Governments, Hawaii and parts of Arizona have adopted a permanent standard time throughout the year and the US territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have observed the same stipulation.
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