Trump says Congress should push 'for more Daylight at the end of a day'

Michie · Apr 11, 2025

President Donald Trump is weighing in on a national debate, apparently calling on Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

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Trump says Congress should push 'for more Daylight at the end of a day'

President Donald Trump called for "more Daylight at the end of a day," apparently advocating for permanent Daylight Saving Time.

www.foxnews.com

FireDragon76 · Apr 11, 2025

Why go to Congress? If he's the Anointed One of MAGA, surely he can just order the Daystar to hang around a little longer in the sky?

The Barbarian · Apr 11, 2025

Michie said:
President Donald Trump is weighing in on a national debate, apparently calling on Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

Supposedly when Roosevelt signed Daylight Savings Time into being, there were farmers upset that the extra hour of daylight would damage the crops. So it's unlikely that Trump was the first person to make such an obvious goof.

jacks · Apr 11, 2025

FireDragon76 said:
Why go to Congress? If he's the Anointed One of MAGA, surely he can just order the Daystar to hang around a little longer in the sky?

Maybe he thinks Venus is in the sky long enough already?

FireDragon76 · Apr 11, 2025

jacks said:
Maybe he thinks Venus is in the sky long enough already?

Venus is the morning star. The daystar is the sun.

jacks · Apr 12, 2025

FireDragon76 said:
Venus is the morning star. The daystar is the sun.

Depends, not that this is important but I believe it usually means Venus, in modern English. I knew from the content of your post you meant the Sun, I was making what was a very small joke. (If it hadn't been a slow news day, I wouldn't have posted any thing.) Debating the definition of a word, seems kind of funny in itself, since we are sitting here with the internet and can just Google. "Definition of ________".

daystar
/dā′stär″/
noun
1. A planet, especially Venus, visible in the east just before sunrise.
2. The sun.

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. More at Wordnik

Other sources say that the term "Daystar" means "Morning Star". Or HERE, no reference to sun.

LizaMarie · Apr 12, 2025

I think the opposite should happen and standard time should be permanent. I live in a state bordering Canada and in the winter it wouldn't get light until after 9 am here and that would be bad for kids going to school and people going to work. Yes, I know many come home from work in the dark ,but there would be more at once in this scenario traveling. Studies have shown that there would be more accidents if this were the case. Plus, the human circadian rhythm is more attuned to standard time according to experts.

Servus · Apr 12, 2025

Even though I like the idea, it was already done in the 70s and caused all kinds of problems. I remember going to school while it was still dark.

The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It - Washingtonian

The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beginning on January 6. "It was jet black"...

www.washingtonian.com

FireDragon76 · Apr 13, 2025

LizaMarie said:
I think the opposite should happen and standard time should be permanent. I live in a state bordering Canada and in the winter it wouldn't get light until after 9 am here and that would be bad for kids going to school and people going to work. Yes, I know many come home from work in the dark ,but there would be more at once in this scenario traveling. Studies have shown that there would be more accidents if this were the case. Plus, the human circadian rhythm is more attuned to standard time according to experts.

I live in Florida but also hate DST. We already get too much light in the summer. If you go to bed early, like I often do, it can be awkward. It's better to have a few hours of sunset before you go to bed.

Arizona has already opted out of DST, for similar reasons. In the summer it's so hot, people only come out at night.

LizaMarie · Apr 14, 2025

FireDragon76 said:
I live in Florida but also hate DST. We already get too much light in the summer. If you go to bed early, like I often do, it can be awkward. It's better to have a few hours of sunset before you go to bed.

Arizona has already opted out of DST, for similar reasons. In the summer it's so hot, people only come out at night.

Agree.

LizaMarie · Apr 14, 2025

LizaMarie said:
Agree.

And science has shown that people do better with more morning daylight hours not at night and the American Sleep Academy(I think) advocates standard time.

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