Is daylight saving time coming to an end?
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If Donald Trump and the Republican Party have their way when the president-elect returns to office in January, switching the time by one hour twice a year will become a thing of the past.
On Friday, Trump posted to his Truth Social account that 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.”
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — named by Trump to assess U.S. government efficiency — mused on social media recently that daylight saving time should be abolished.
“Looks like the people want to abolish the annoying time changes!” Musk wrote in response to an X user’s poll asking people’s opinion on daylight saving time.
“It’s inefficient & easy to change,” Ramaswamy wrote in a reply to Musk.
Daylight saving time began in 1918 as an effort to save energy by having more hours of daylight in the evening during the warmer months.
In 2022, the U.S. Senate advanced a plan to make daylight saving time permanent.
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As of now, in most Canadian provinces and U.S. states, the clock moves ahead one hour in the spring and back one hour in the fall.
Only Yukon, most of Saskatchewan, some areas of Quebec and parts of British Columbia in Canada and Arizona and Hawaii in the U.S. don’t adjust the time.
In Ontario, legislation was passed by the Doug Ford government in 2020 to make daylight saving time permanent, but only when Quebec and New York state decide to scrap the time change.