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Ditch Daylight Saving Time. Permanent Standard Time lets us sleep later for health, mood, safety, education, economy, environment. We’re a 501(c)(4) nonprofit.

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“The president’s posts included a letter from the Professional Golfers’ Association, which estimated permanent DST would lead to $1 billion more in revenue…”

The New York Times

Despite All, Daylight Saving Time Is Still on Trump’s Mind

Following an election-year rout for Republicans, Trump castigated lawmakers for not passing the Sunshine Protection Act. Some scientists have warned against the change.

By Lynne Peeples

Nov. 7, 2026, 5:03 a.m. ET

The day after a midterm drubbing for the G.O.P., President Trump took to social media to complain — about turning back the clocks.

“It’s so dark outside, so early,” he posted on Truth Social. He went on to lament the lack of action taken by the Senate on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would lock most of the nation’s clocks on daylight saving time year-round.

“I will keep fighting for this!” he wrote.

Scientists aren’t particularly keen on permanent daylight saving time, fearing more injuries in the early-morning darkness and the health consequences of disturbed body clocks. But the president is an ardent supporter. One possible reason: golf.

“Trump is not hiding the fact that golf is…

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“Get rid of the switch and have it be year-round Standard Time.”

Gizmodo

Patricia Lakin-Thomas

An expert on biological clocks and circadian rhythmicity at York University in Toronto, Canada.

We should definitely scrap the practice of switching clocks twice a year. And when I’m speaking, I’m speaking on behalf of the Canadian Society for Chronobiology, of which I’m a board member, and I am also speaking on behalf of a consortium of scientific societies across Canada who are sleep researchers, there’s a sleep consortium. And this is also the consensus opinion across North American scientific societies and European scientific societies.

We’re all agreed that switching clocks twice a year is the worst system of dealing with the time problem. And we know this because we can see increases in acute health events and accidents in the spring.

When we spring forward, we are losing an hour of sleep. And we’re all sleep deprived anyway, so that’s bad for us. Plus, we’re moving out of what we would consider more natural Standard Time and we’re moving into…

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Proponents of permanent DST are free to continue setting their alarms an hour earlier than Standard Time (yet they don’t).

Two photos from Pacifica this morning. At 7am Pacific Daylight Time (no longer observed since fall back), the sky is very dark. At 7am Pacific Standard Time (now observed since fall back), the sky is beginning to lighten.

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Circadian rhythms run on solar time. Standard Time approximates solar time. Daylight Saving Time is an hour fast.

Screen grab from the 1970s “It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature” commercial, with added text “Ditch Daylight Saving Time, Stick to Standard Time”.

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“We get it that Trump wants more time on the links before dinnertime, but it’s not worth plunging the country into dark mornings during the winter months.”

Daily News

Opinion

Trump is wrong on always having daylight saving time

By New York Daily News Editorial Board

PUBLISHED: November 1, 2026

Thankfully, Donald Trump did not get his petulant way to make daylight saving time permanent and standard time returned at 2 a.m. this morning, when the clocks did their “fall back” and ended DST, which began on March 8. We averted a very dark winter, with pitch black mornings. Clocks will again “spring ahead” on March 14, 2027 and return to standard time next Nov. 7.

Trump says he doesn’t like the twice yearly switching and wants to stay on DST year round, which would mean more light in the afternoons and he’s emphasized how that will help p.m. golfers like himself. We get it that Trump wants more time on the links before dinnertime, but it’s not worth plunging the country into dark mornings during the winter months.

In New York City, under DST the sunrises have been getting later and later after 7 a.m. If that continued without last night…