Trump wants to end daylight saving time in the US

The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, wants to end daylight saving time.

In a post on his social media site on Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to the White House.

“The Republican Party will do its best to eliminate daylight saving time, which has a small but strong following, but it shouldn’t. Daylight saving time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation,” he wrote.

Moving clocks forward one hour in spring and back one hour in autumn is intended to maximize daylight during the summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a war measure in 1942.

Lawmakers have occasionally proposed eliminating daylight saving time entirely. The main attempt to eliminate it in recent times has been a now-stalled bipartisan bill called the Sunshine Protection Act, which had proposed keeping daylight saving time the rest of the year.

The proposal had the support of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump has chosen to lead the State Department.

“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said when the Senate voted for the measure.

But health experts have said it should be the other way around and that standard hours should be established permanently.

Some medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said it’s time to eliminate time changes and that keeping standard time better aligns with the Sun — and with human biology.

Most countries do not change their time during the summer. For those that do, the date the clocks are changed varies, creating a complicated tapestry of shifting time differences.

Arizona and Hawaii never change their clocks.

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