President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
Good news for you: that’s what he’s likely planning (if he implements the 2022 Senate bill as-is).
Bad news for kids: that means they have to walk to school in the dark with sleep-deprived people operating heavy machinery in their vicinity for a bigger portion of the year.
“Won’t someone think of the children?”
There’s a pretty major difference between a moral panic and pointing out that something is going to decrease safety. Most notably, those moral panics are often opposed to things that actually do make kids safer.
Changing the clocks is already associated with an increase in fatal traffic accidents. If you’re concerned about safety then let’s stop changing the clocks.
Fully agree! But let’s not change them in a direction that also has known safety hazards.