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Broken clock.

Finally something I can support

The Sunlight Protection Act has been put up several times and passed by the Senate as recently as 2022. It sits in a committee at this time. I'm sure trump will take credit if it works its way through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act

Good.

The extra hour of sunshine cannot be good for global temperatures.

Just trying to distract the public from any number of his fucked up shit

The fun is in trying to figure out how this will be profitable for him.

Trump says lots of things.

Who knows which he will actually try to do?

Or how many of those things he will actually succeed at?

I'm fine with that, but I think we should settle on Daylight Savings time. You know, when time is an hour ahead of what it is now.

Fingers crossed that this gives us an extra hour of sunshine after work instead of before. It's so depressing to leave the office at 4pm and it's already dark out.

I support standard time more, the 12 o clock at the center of the timezone should be noon, not having noon at 1PM, and day lengths are better on average without. DST makes it better, but only for sunset times, it makes the mornings drastically worse and I think employers and schools should just change their hours if they care so much about sunlight when they leave.

Instead of squawking over which to have, how about we all just uze Zulu time and eliminate the timezone confusion as well?

this would be pretty good. i hope he's not full of shit on this one thing

Extra hour of sunlight for golf no doubt.

I'm for permanent daylight. Not a morning person so i hate the sun coming up so early. The mornings should be dark and gloomy (because I have to go to work, work sucks) plus the added benefit of actually having some light when you get off work. The sun going down right when I'm finally off is kind of insulting and depressing.

Getting anyone to come to an agreement on this will be impossible since its based on preference.

Right after lowering grocery prices.

I wonder how long until some special interest group like airlines come along and bribe him to change his mind, because it would be expensive for them to update their systems

So states he can't fix greedflation and moves to checks notes ....eliminating daylight savings. Pretty fuckin low on the list...

Honestly I'd rather have the switch than permanent daylight.

As a programmer, software and operating system enthusiast that keeps up with time zone rule changes to keep legacy operating systems updated, I absolutely hate whenever they fuck with the time zone rules.

All the devices out there that are pre-programmed to change the daylight savings time automatically will need to be updated to continue working correctly, or some may have to be manually corrected twice a year.

If it counts for anything though, modern operating systems and devices would end up getting the appropriate updates from their relevant update servers, and phones will just get their time from the cell towers.

When you get down to it though, it doesn't make the days any longer or shorter, it's just the numbers we assign to the clock. The sun is still gonna rise and set just like it always has, longer days in the summer and shorter days in the winter.