President-elect Donald Trump took to social media Friday to announce his intention to abolish daylight saving time.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized daylight saving time for its inconvenience and economic costs to the nation. He said he would try to eliminate the practice once he returns to office.
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump wrote.
The practice of advancing clocks by an hour each spring and resetting them back in the fall was originally implemented in 1942 as a wartime effort to conserve energy by making better use of daylight, according to The Associated Press. Despite its long-standing place in American life, daylight saving time has consistently faced scrutiny and calls…
