Trump Wants To LOCK DAYLIGHT SAVINGS DOWN!

LOCK HER UP!

Oops! I mean… LOCK IT DOWN!

I live in Arizona, so we don’t DO time changes. We just… stay where we are.

It’s actually really nice, other than having to adjust to everyone ELSE’S time changing. For instance – I USED to match up with Mountain Time – a 2-hour difference from Hannah. Now I’m on Pacific time, which is a 3-hour difference. Sooo she can expect quite a few way-too-late phone calls while I adjust.

We stay the same – everyone else changes.

But it SOUNDS like President Trump thinks Arizona has the right idea.

Does he actually want to do this? Or is he just cranky and sleep deprived?

According to Fox News:

President Trump apparently is tired of switching clocks just like everyone else.

Coming off a universally sleep-deprived weekend during which America set the clocks to spring forward an hour, Trump tweeted that he’s “O.K.” with making Daylight Saving Time “permanent” — in other words, enough with the clock changing.

“Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!” Trump tweeted Monday.

The president’s tweet came at the start of 2019’s Daylight Saving Time, which begins each year on the second Sunday in March, starting at 2 a.m. Changing the clocks forward means everyone loses an hour of sleep but gains an hour of evening daylight through the fall, when the clocks are turned back.

The law was first established during World War I as “a way of conserving fuel needed for war industries and of extending the working day,” according to the Library of Congress. But it was only temporary – the law was repealed as soon as the war was over.

But the issue of daylight saving emerged again during World War II. On Jan. 20, 1942, Congress re-established daylight saving time.

More than 20 years later, in 1966, former President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Uniform Time Act, declaring daylight saving time a policy of the U.S. and establishing uniform start and end times within standard time zones. The policy is regulated by the Department of Transportation.

And it actually COULD happen…

The president would need to work with Congress in order to repeal the 1966 Johnson-era law. Republican Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott filed a bill last week to extend daylight saving time for the entire year, called the Sunshine Protection Act. The Florida legislature voted last year to adopt the measure, but in order for it to take effect, Congress must change the federal law, and Trump must sign it.

His Monday morning tweet seemed to signal that should such a proposal make it to his desk, he would do so.

Hmmmm. VERY interesting.

Personally – I HATE when it gets dark early. It makes me feel like going to bed at 7pm. I want more daylight in the evening!

What do you all think?