Posted on 05/22/2026 11:54:40 AM PDT by Libloather
President Donald Trump is championing the prospect of putting the kibosh on twice-annual clock changes by making daylight saving time permanent.
A bill to make daylight saving time permanent has been folded into a larger measure that the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced in a 48-1 vote on Thursday.
"Big Vote today (48-1!) in the Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent! This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks. Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and the cost of renting, or using, Heavy Equipment to do this twice a year is prohibitive!" Trump wrote in a Thursday Truth Social post.
"It’s time that people can stop worrying about the ‘Clock,’ not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production. It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it! We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day — And who can be against that — This is an easy one!" the president declared.
Rep. Vern Buchanan's, R-Fla., office noted in a Thursday press release that "The Sunshine Protection Act was included as a provision within an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (AINS) to the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act, which was marked up and sent to the House floor by the House Energy and Commerce Committee today."
The push is actually bipartisan.
"The legislation has 32 bipartisan cosponsors in the House, and Senate companion legislation (S. 29) introduced by Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has 18 bipartisan cosponsors," Buchanan's release noted.
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I love this idea, but Standard time is the way to go.
Permanent standard time is the rational answer.
There is no extra hour of sunlight.
I'm fine with the time change, but not the dates when they implement it. The switch from Standard Time back to Daylight Saving Time happens too soon. Make Standard Time start on the 4th Sunday in October, and make Daylight Saving Time start on the 4th Sunday in March. Five months off, and seven months on.
Whatever mode we’re in right now, just leave it at that.
Agree. Natural time is best for the body. Early sun equals early rising versus staying up later because it is light put at 9pm.
Haha!
I agree with nixing the clock change, but the permanent daylight savings is stupid - it just means the sun is not overhead at noon.
It’s like shifting the calendar forward one month - it would do absolutely nothing except confuse everyone until they got used to calling November “December”.
It would be like making Americans use metric - we’d all just have no feel for what size anything is…
Populist nonsense; going for votes instead of common sense.
But isn’t that natural time? Isn’t that what nature is used to?
I don’t know, folks in Fairbanks, Alaska, might start getting 2 hours of sunlight instead of one during the winter. That could totally mess with their circadian rhythms.
I know, right?! That extra hour of sunlight is costing me lots of money in extra summertime cooling too!
I read it was originally set up for golfers, lol. Remember the country club speaker of the house John “CRYBABY” Boehner.
It's 2026...so you can't shop after sunset?? Early sunsets mean maybe more time with family??
I'm 82...so we lived by the street lights...when they come on...head for home. None of us even owned a watch.
Dr. Oz and the AMA are for Standard Time...100%.
Schools need to start later.
Always about the kids. Ignoring how many deaths occur in part of this time change shit every year.
I like DST; I’ve looked forward to it in the Spring since I was a school kid.
This is one of the very few arguments my husband and I will never resolve. He just wants them to pick one and stick with it.
Because by and large the general population of the united states of america are absolutely the most intellectually retarded citizens this country has ever had.
Either one, I don’t care...Just stay with one standard time...
Permanent Standard Time would be OK with me.
When I was a boy in NC, we didn’t go on DST.
I think the states south of Virginia all stayed on Standard Time.
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