Musk and Ramaswamy want to end daylight saving time change — can they?
By
Peter Cordi
December 3, 2024 3:19 pm
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will head the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, signaled a desire to end the semiannual daylight saving time clock change. There is just one problem: That power belongs to Congress.
Musk shared an X poll showing the vast majority of respondents want to abolish the “annoying” time change, to which Ramaswamy responded that the policy is “inefficient and easy to change.”
Many political figures and influencers commented on the post in support of making daylight saving time permanent, including Donald Trump Jr. However, in 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which established daylight saving time, and put the Department of Transportation in charge of enforcing it.
The department even has a specific email address for people to contact if they want to report their locality for not observing daylight saving time. States can exempt themselves from observing it through state laws, but states don’t have the authority to choose to be on permanent daylight saving time.
Only two states, Arizona and Hawaii, exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time.
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