On Sunday, in a long, rambling Truth Social post, President Donald Trump revealed the real reason heās been pushing for permanent Daylight Saving Time. Unsurprisingly, itās for the benefit of golf. Whatās more, in the same post, he doxxed a Republican senator by revealing his personal cell phone number.
āEverybody in Arkansas, [Senator] Tom Cotton (R-AK), a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill,ā posted the president. āItās called, āThe Sunshine Protection Actā or, āWe Donāt Want to Change Our Clocks Twice a Year Act.ā For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, itās very easy to do, it only takes one! It should pass overwhelmingly, in a Bipartisan fashion. So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all. Nobody wants to spend their precious time running all over the place, turning Clocks back twice a year and, having sunshine in the afternoon is better than early in the morning!ā
Here Trump tipped his hand, revealing his actual justification for the bill: āThe PGA TOUR, as an example, needs more Daylight in the afternoon in order to finish their Tournaments. Likewise, regular Golfers, Tennis Players, Hunters and, perhaps most importantly, Farmers who want more Daylight to play or work. See letter from Brian Rolapp, CEO of the PGA TOUR below. 65 percent PLUS want more sun in the afternoon, Daylight Saving Time (The way it is now!), but 100 percent donāt want to change their Clocks twice a year. They want to, as they say, āLOCK THE CLOCK!ā Who doesnāt? Itās very expensive for our Nation where you have high and dangerous steeples to reach, like on churches and municipal buildings. Almost everybody wants āThe Sunshine Protection Actā to pass, except for Tom Cotton. To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself. Call Tom on his cellphoneā¦ā The president went on to reveal what he asserts is Cottonās actual phone number.
Idk if you are answering the wrong person or what but DST or standard time is not important to me at all. If your Michigan employer works with new York customers, maybe they start at 1300 UTC. And if they work with California people, maybe its 1600UTC. If they are running a restaurant its maybe 1500 UTC.
It is irrelevant whether they are in Michigan or Florida or the Azores, the absolute UTC start time is just whatever is appropriate for the location and the business.
And there would be no date line if everyone used UTC, there would just be the date which would be the same for everyone. 2300 could be morning in some places and evening in others, but it would be the same date and time.
Yes you can always pick an arbitrary time to start with any system.
Everyone could get on EST and it would be no different than everyone being on UTC. UTC isnāt some special timing system itās just selecting one timezone to use, like EST.
Imagine if tomorrow the whole US started just using EST. You really think people in California are going to be happy with it? Someone that wakes up at 9 am PST in California would wake up when their clock said 12 pm EST. Their whole daily time routine is shifted 3 hours.
Wake up 8 am PST Lunch 12 pm Dinner 6 pm Sleep 10 pm
It would be
Wake up 14:00 UTC Lunch 20:00 UTC Dinner 2:00 UTC Sleep 6:00 UTC
They would wake up with half the UTC day over and they go to bed early the next day. Youād want to base your day around that? Something like going to gym after dinner would be 3:00 UTC. Yes the daylight level at 3:00 UTC in California is the exact same as 19:00 pm PST. Yet you have to morph your whole schedule around it. Standard time for things like dinner being 18:00 doesnāt exist, it is now a random UTC number depending on where you live. 2:00 UTC in California, 23:00 UTC in Maine.
UTC uses the international date line.
Something as simple as a store having a sale for a day. People in California sleep over half thier day unless they were to order in the āmorningā before they go to sleep.
UTC is already an agreed upon standard in some circles. I guess Iām not seeing the problem that people in California show ā1600ā on thier watches when they go to work. Its arbitrary, work lasts from 1600-0000, why would they need to rearrange thier lives?
Do the numbers on your microwave display have some way to maybe you sleep or wake up?
The international date line is meaningless without time zones, a new day, 00:00, begins at the same time for everyone in the world, there is no line you could cross to move to a different date. 00:00 could be the middle of the night in the UK, or the afternoon in California, or in Japan, but January 1st at 00:00 is still January 1st at 00:00 at all locations.
EST is already an agreed upon standard in some circles.
I want to visit California.
I currently eat dinner at 6 pm EST. National peak is 6:19 pm.
Thatās 23:00 UTC.
People in California eat dinner at 6 PST or 9 PM EST or 2 UTC.
So when I get to California I have to figure out what time dinner is at normally?
Maybe thatās the thing Iām not seeing
Itās simple. I leave Maine at 2 UTC and arrive in California at 11 UTC after a 9 hour flight.
Iām in California with a clock that says 11 UTC. At 11 UTC I am usually sleeping but I could get up. So if I slept well on the plane Iād probably leave the airport to go do something. 11 UTC is 3 am PST. California would be sleeping. How do I know when things will open? Generally 8 am to 10 am. Itās 11 UTC, how do I know when it is āGenerally 8 am to 10 amā in California UTC time? Think California probably runs 3 hours later then Maine. I know stores open at 12 UTC to 14 UTC in Maine. So they are generally going to open 15 UTC to 17 UTC in California?
Like instead of worrying about what time it is in your home area. You have to worry about what times change to in the new area. You know your home time instantly, but have to convert to ālocalā time.
And I do see your point of the date line. That is is a perk.
I mean I donāt want to learn a new dinner time. I donāt want to worry what time dinner is in California.