President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
That holds true outside of the fact that it changes daily due to our axis orbit and our position on earth. If we actually went by it, our clocks would have to change constantly as well. So if we are going to ignore it by not changing the clocks, why wouldn’t we just ignore it all together. We are okay with saying the sun sets at 4:30… Or 7:30… Or maybe it only sets for 2 hours a night if you are north/south enough… So why bother trying to coorelate that?
Time zones weren’t established to adjust for north/south variances, they’re for east/west. And we don’t adjust the clocks to make sunrise and sunset fall on consistent time of day throughout the year. They’re so that we can reliably account for what the local time is somewhere other than where we are (in the USA they were created for cross-continental railroads to publish train schedules). We already have GMT/UTC and every other time zone is defined relative to that, so why don’t you just personally use that in all your own devices and communications already? Nothing but you can prevent you from doing so.