President Trump is giving the nod to legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent, providing a boost to lawmakers who have pushed to make evening sunlight a year-round phenomenon.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), along with Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), re-introduced the Sunshine Protection Act last week, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide. Rubio introduced the measure last year to no avail.
“The time to stop changing our clocks twice a year is now,” Rubio said in a statement to The Hill. “This legislation is a non-partisan issue, however, it has bipartisan support, and I thank President Trump for offering his support as well.”
Trump tweeted about the topic on Monday, the day after clocks moved forward, saying that “making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!”
“I am hopeful that the rest of my colleagues will see the daylight and get behind the Sunshine Protection Act,” Rubio added.
Read more at The Hill.
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If they change to the permanent summer time, would earliest shacharis be after 7am in the winter? Would make it very difficult to daven before work.
It would be a disaster for us. Netz at 820!
Daylight Savings time is not good for Vasikin and Shachris minyanim and we should try not to allow it to go through. We need to stop it altogether. Bad enough from March to Oct.
Besides, these long days don’t save anything. It just confuses children who want to stay and play outdoors longer or don’t want to go to sleep when it’s still light outside.
Without DST the sun rises in the summer at 4:30. This won’t confuse your kids?
Stupid idea. It will still be dark when children are going to school and there will be CH”V many tragedies just like last time they tried it back in the 70’s. Not to mention the huge inconvenience for many Frum people who will not be able to Daven Shachris before going to work.
Bad for the Jews. Earliest time for tallis and tefillin in NYC would be 7:30. Sunrise would be 8:20. When would working people daven?
This did happen once before, in the 1970s during the oil crisis.
This would make Shachris times extremely challenging in the winter. Netz is already close to 9 here, and later in other locales. Year round DST would mean netz at 10.
If you think about this for more than two seconds you will realize how ridiculous and haughty this is. Permanent daylight savings means nothing, they can just start work an hour earlier and change the way they view 7 o’clock 8 o’clock etc. You can’t change the sun
In Michigan and most of Indiana, which are in the Eastern time zone, winter daylight savings time would wreak havoc on morning minyanim. I’d be happier with no daylight time ever for anyone, anywhere.
Bad news for frum people if this happens
It means that anyone who travels an hour to work in an area with no shul will have difficulty davening Shacrish before work at the proper zman
This may help start everyone’s day later