Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

He phrased it poorly.

He has spoken about it in the past and wanted to keep the US on Daylight Savings permanently.

No reason to think he would want to do a u turn.

You’ve also got the practical end of such a proposal to consider. Daylight Savings has existed in the US since before the advent of digital systems. While many systems now synchronise against a specified timezone via an online Time Server, there are plenty of systems out there that will need to be manually edited to not apply Daylight Savings.

It’s not an impossible task, but it does require a good deal of planning and a review of systems to ensure important functions are not disrupted by an unplanned hour-shift early on a Sunday morning. Would an Elon-tastic Federal agency be up to the task? That’s questionable.

Anyone with a bit of common sense measures the time in seconds since 00:00:00 UT 1st January 1970 anyway 😉

I'd be happy if the EU got rid of the practice. It has been mentioned a few times but never happens.

There's no EU standardisation on the practice, I wish there was. We won't change it on our own, particularly if the UK don't do it. Individual businesses could change their working hours if they saw fit.

Trump does like his sausage McMuffins. DST shouldn't make a difference to him, he never seems to do any work.

All EU countries make the change on the same date.

The proposal for USA is to stay on DST and scrap the hour changes. Ireland would likely stay on the summer hours as well, our biggest issue is the UK and Northern Ireland if they don't change as well (and given the dumbness of brexit, likely wouldn't change because the EU is changing).

The EU plan was to give countries the choice of summer or winter hours but it got postponed due to the pandemic and hasn't come back yet.

(The US winter hours are only for 4.5 months as well, EU is 5 months).

The biggest issue with daylight saving is clocks are not readjusted untiled of March. Clocks go back about 7 weeks before Winter Solstice but do not adjust forwards until 14 weeks later. If it was the end if February or first weekend in March it woukd be 9-10 weeks

The return of BDS. The real pros use atomic clocks.

It always comes back to:
Harris: "I'll make housing affordable"
Trump: "They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs!"
Voters: I think Trump is making salient points and he has the concept of a plan, he seems to be the best person to look after my interests and I would definitely trust him with nuclear weapons.

Not to mention:

(Pre-election)

Trump: I'll bring down grocery prices, and my tariffs will mean people won't have to pay as much for goods!

Trump Fans: YEAH! F*ck Biden & Harris!

(Post-election)

Trump: Well, I probably can't bring down grocery prices, it's very hard. And people might have to pay more for goods because of my tariffs.

Trump Fans: …erm…. yeaaahhhh?… not your fault I guess…. errr…. F*ck Biden & Harris!

Cue chinstroking commentator. "Harris wasn't in touch with the real practicalities that concern the ordinary American voters:inflation, the price of gas, housing, healthcare…."

Many MAGA faithful are no longer with us because they took horse dewormer as medication against COVID and refused to get the vaccine.
They died with the words "it's all a hoax" on their lips.
His followers won't care what it costs them, what they lose or what happens to them and their loved ones. "Their" guy is in office and that's all that matters.

Ugh, we've four years of madness ahead of us .

You're the President of the United States man...

Still peddling the horse de-wormer thing debunked years ago?