But Trump calls it “a 50-50 edition”

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President Donald Trump has become less aggressive when it comes to a national change of time and said that the time on Thursday ends the “50-50 problem” that the time change is “impractical” just a few days before the preliminary.

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Will Trump get rid of summer time?

It is unclear, although his comments on Thursday evening indicate that he is leaning against removing it. In December, Trump said about the social truth that the “Republican Party” would use its best efforts to “eliminate daylight, which he said” a small but strong constituency “and” very costly for our nation “. Trump could not only remove time saving time: It would require an action by the congress and the presidential approval.

Is it daylight savings?

The United States is in standard time or st. From Sunday at 2 a.m., most US states will switch to daylight savings time or the DST.

When exactly does the rescue time of daylight begin?

Summer time begins this weekend, on Sunday, March 9th, at 2 a.m. in most USA, your watches will turn forward for an hour, which means that they lose an hour of sleep, but the sun will end an hour later until daylight on November 2.

What is Elon Musk’s attitude to summer time?

Unclear. On Wednesday, the key Trump consultant Elon Musk X took X to ask the Americans what they wanted to see with the rescue time of daylight. Musk asked X users whether the savings period would be canceled in daylight what they would prefer, and 58.1% of the respondents said to prefer an hour later, while 41.9% said an hour earlier.

Why is there daylight saving time?

Summer time begins on the second Sunday in March of each year and runs the first Sunday in November. The practice was first founded in 1918 as a war policy to give people more daylight, although it was lifted and shortly afterwards a local affair became a local application department of the US Navy. The rescue time of daylight was brought back nationwide by the uniform Time Act in 1966 and said goodbye, although the opponents believe that it harms more harm to people’s health. According to the American Medical Association, which is previously supported for a permanent change to standard time, people who want to see that the end of the rescue period of daylight and the end of the rescue of the times is associated with increasing heart problems, car accidents and mood disorders. However, supporters of the time change, but say that people are grateful to have more sunshine after the traditional working day and that politics can reduce energy consumption and improve the quality of life. Legislators have worked on changing changes to summer time for years and came closest in 2022 when the Senate passed the Sonnenschutz Act, which would have made the practice permanently and removed the change to the standard time – although the house would never have decreased a vote on the draft law.

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Toy with elimination of time changes in daylight – like some countries at the end of the exercise (Forbes)

According to Trumps, the Republicans will work on eliminating summer time (Forbes)