On Sunday, in a long, rambling Truth Social post, President Donald Trump revealed the real reason he’s been pushing for permanent Daylight Saving Time. Unsurprisingly, it’s for the benefit of golf. What’s more, in the same post, he doxxed a Republican senator by revealing his personal cell phone number.
“Everybody in Arkansas, [Senator] Tom Cotton (R-AK), a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill,” posted the president. “It’s called, ‘The Sunshine Protection Act’ or, ‘We Don’t Want to Change Our Clocks Twice a Year Act.’ For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one! It should pass overwhelmingly, in a Bipartisan fashion. So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all. Nobody wants to spend their precious time running all over the place, turning Clocks back twice a year and, having sunshine in the afternoon is better than early in the morning!”
Here Trump tipped his hand, revealing his actual justification for the bill: “The PGA TOUR, as an example, needs more Daylight in the afternoon in order to finish their Tournaments. Likewise, regular Golfers, Tennis Players, Hunters and, perhaps most importantly, Farmers who want more Daylight to play or work. See letter from Brian Rolapp, CEO of the PGA TOUR below. 65 percent PLUS want more sun in the afternoon, Daylight Saving Time (The way it is now!), but 100 percent don’t want to change their Clocks twice a year. They want to, as they say, ‘LOCK THE CLOCK!’ Who doesn’t? It’s very expensive for our Nation where you have high and dangerous steeples to reach, like on churches and municipal buildings. Almost everybody wants ‘The Sunshine Protection Act’ to pass, except for Tom Cotton. To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself. Call Tom on his cellphone…” The president went on to reveal what he asserts is Cotton’s actual phone number.
Just start the event earlier you moron. Jesus this guy is thick. I don’t like changing the clocks either, but that is the dumbest reason to stop.
Yeah, but narcissists like donnie don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves.
If the big baby donnie has a minor inconvenience, well then, the world should change for the big baby.
Maybe he thinks this changes the amount of time the sun is up?
I hate to agree with Trump about anything, but events have to be planned around the schedules of prospective attendees. DST exists because it causes most peoples’ schedules to be adjusted, and proponents of both abolition and permanence are seeking to do just that.
Some years back, they extended DST here in New Zealand by about a month each side. It now runs from September to April. I like it better being longer.
We need to go to permanent standard time. Just fall back on November 1st and never change the clocks again.
We need to go to permanent… yada yada
Just don’t change the clocks Nov 1, or ever again.
Yada yada.
Nd this is why we still have daylight savings time.
Why?
I don’t care why he’s doing it, I just want it done.
I don’t see anything wrong with giving out Senator’s numbers. Do they serve the people or not? Do this more often. Like, constantly.
Direct access to your representative is reserved for those that have bribed them enough. (Corporations and awful people who own corporations).
Trump is an asshole, but we should adopt permanent something. I don’t care if it’s DST or standard time as long as we stop changing the clocks.
The article notes people in northern states tend to be more opposed to permanent DST. It seems odd to me nobody has seriously proposed splitting time zones north/south, i.e. New York would be on Eastern Standard Time, and Florida would be on Atlantic Standard Time - an hour later, equivalent to Eastern Daylight Time.
Honestly we should just move to a timezoneless universal time. Places in one part of the world could open at 8:00 and close at 18:00 and somewhere on the other side of the world would open from 20:00 to 6:00. No zone change in travel or scheduling meetings would simplify communications and logistics, and you can also ditch this asinine “saving” concept as you’ll have decoupled when the sun rises from an arbitrary number.
We already have States that have opted out. If they want to opt in to DST that should be up to them IMO.
I’m so with you here. Pick DST or standard whatever will get us to stop changing time. Can always revisit which one we want later ✌️
Lol that would require another time change
I’ve worked swingshift for over 20 years and trust me when I say it, the switch from daylight savings in the winter and in the springtime is always a struggle for that week afterwards, this would be a welcomed improvement, but I’m not going to give this win to Donny if it even happens at all. I know that this has been an ongoing thing for longer than I can remember actually.
My friend’s stepdad died of a heart attack last year 2 days after the time change. I would not be the least bit surprised if that was a part of the cause. Apparently, every time there is a big uptick in heart attacks. Seems like people are dying for no fucking reason.
Imagine having the power to change a country’s clocks permanently while still being a degenerate pedophile. Now that’s multi-tasking!
The clocks will replace the “O’Clock” part of every hour with “Hail America”.
So one hour after noon would be announced as “One Hail America”
I WANNA PLAY* GOLF BUT I WANNA SLEEP LATE!
There’s plenty of golfers out on the greens at the crack of dawn, but it ain’t gonna be Fatty.
*cheat at
DST is mostly because of golf, and that’s reason enough we should abolish it.
ETA: if you play golf, I hate you. You are helping to prop up decades of systemic oppression. Fuck your lawns and your country clubs and your gated communities and your evening sunlight.
In the show Veep, there’s a character who goes on a very myopic crusade against daylight saving time
Who still has clocks they need to change and don’t have a reason for liking that specific clock? If you like analog clocks I doubt you care about setting it. If you don’t, what clock do you still own that needs resetting? I drive old cars so that’s one I guess,and the stove. That’s it
The real reason to stop changing times isn’t because of older clocks, there is real data that shows a spike in accidents and heart attacks after we change the clock
I have a bunch of equipment that I have to support that doesn’t support automatic time changes. I tried to talk them into using UTC but maths are too hard.
THATS WHAT UTC IS FOR!!!
Stove and microwave have their own clocks with no sync between them, car ‘technically’ automatically updates but I swear for a week straight after the change it will still display the ‘old’ time and then flip back once I start driving. I’ve got a boombox I don’t care what the time says on it and a clock radio at my desk which I do care.
But, to your point, even with Standard and Daylight time as it is, I just reset the stove and microwave in about thirty seconds and I’m good the rest of the way. It’s really not that important to me. I get up when it’s dark and go to bed when it’s dark almost any time of the year.
My microwave clock drifts that much that it’s useless as a clock
How… how is that possible with a digital clock?
In theory if you sync the clock with the mains frequency then you get an accurate clock, or you could use the cheapest component you can find because fuck it it’s a microwave and if it looses 10 seconds a day no one will notice, untill 3 months later and you wonder why it’s 15minutes out
You’re saying that the frequency of the alternating current of house mains is how the microwave keeps time!? I’m not doubting, it make sense, I’m just gobsmacked
No but it’s the best method to use, large institutional buildings used to have clocks that did this, and all the clocks kept in sync. The power grid used to (not sure if still do) maintain a set number of oscillations over the day so in theory every 24hours a known amount.
However the microwave probably doesn’t and has a shitty quartz crystal for the lowest possible price.
What a microwave does have is a nice transformer that you can make a spot welder out of with a bit of thick wire. Obviously don’t do this unless you know what your are doing.
I live in Western Australia and we abolished daylight savings back in 2009. It has had no discernable difference in my life other than not having to wake up for work too early for a week once per year.
Literally the only downside is forgetting if the eastern states are two or three hours ahead when scheduling anything with someone over east.
A broken clock is right twice per day, even with daylight savings.
I mean, that’s why William Willett proposed DST in the first place, so it tracks.
I don’t like changing the clocks around and do (since I can’t change my work schedule or when yoga class is) like DST better. Like most office jobs, where I work nobody notices if you come in early but if you stay later they think you are doing more than you actually are.
But if we have to change them, it is at least this year on the best day it could possibly be, we get one more hour of Halloween.
And school should start at 9am either way. That whole argument about kids waiting in the dark, because of DST, is because school starts at like 0730, what the fuck? Let the kids sleep until 7 at least.
But if school doesn’t start at 7:30, then the sports teams won’t be able to practice after school!
