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President-elect Donald Trump wants to scrap daylight saving time.
Trump said Friday he will work to end daylight saving time, putting his weight behind a long-debated effort to end semi-annual time changes. He wants to make standard time year-round.
What did Trump say about ending daylight saving time?
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump wrote in a post on his social media site Truth Social. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”
Why is daylight saving a thing? What is it?
The goal of daylight saving time is to ensure more daylight hours in a day for a number of reasons, but primarily to save energy. There have also been arguments that having more daylight hours benefits public safety and health.
Daylight saving time was first introduced in the U.S. in 1918 during World War I, and it was known as “war time.” It was then abandoned after the war as there was no financial need to continue it at the time.
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Daylight saving time as we know it today began in the U.S. with the Uniform Time Act of 1966, only it started on the last Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday of October.
In 2005 it was shifted to begin on the second Sunday of March and first Sunday of November, like it is today. A Department of Energy study found the extra four weeks of daylight saving time saved around 0.5% in total electricity daily in the U.S., equaling energy savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours annually.
When is daylight saving time?
The U.S. is currently in standard time ‒ which moved the clocks back an hour on Nov. 3, resulting in early December sunsets that are often the subject of complaints. The nation is set to spring forward to daylight saving time again on March 9 of next year.
What would be the effect of no daylight saving time?
Although getting rid of daylight saving time would keep the strikingly early winter evenings, the move would mean no more time changes, which some call their biggest annoyance.
Health experts say time changes disrupt the body’s circadian rhythm and release hormones. But most oppose keeping daylight saving time permanent, citing evidence that springing forward an hour in March is harder on us than falling back in November. “The medical and scientific communities are unified … that permanent standard time is better for human health,” said Erik Herzog, a professor of biology and neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis and the former president of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms.
Polling suggests Americans favor Trump’s idea of getting rid of daylight saving time. About 43% want year-round standard time, 32% want permanent daylight saving time and 25% want to stick with the status quo, an October 2021 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found.
Does Indiana observe daylight savings time?
Yes; Indiana observes daylight saving time.
Which states don’t observe daylight saving time?
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All but two states observe daylight saving time. Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate.
Yet even among those who want to scrap time changes, there’s a debate about whether daylight saving time or standard time should be the one to go.
In 2022, the Senate approved bipartisan legislation on unanimous consent to make daylight standard time permanent ‒ and keep the later sunsets ‒ but it stalled in the House. The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Trump ally and the incoming president’s nominee for secretary of state.
But without action from Congress, most Americans will keep going through the time changes that come around twice a year.
The U.S. tried year-round daylight saving time once before. That came in 1974 under President Richard Nixon. Just a few months into the experiment, Congress voted to go back to standard time after complaints of children going to school in the dark on winter mornings.
Indianapolis Star reporters Chris Sims and Katie Wiseman contributed to this report.
Contact IndyStar reporter Cheryl V. Jackson at [email protected] or 317-444-6264. Follow her on X.com:@cherylvjackson or Bluesky: @cherylvjackson.bsky.social.
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