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🚨 US House Energy/Commerce Committee today amended the Sunshine Protection Act into the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act. If approved by Congress, it would mandate permanent Daylight Saving Time in all states that don’t self-exempt in advance, with no option for exemption after taking effect. 🧐 Permanent DST is a mandate to start work/school an hour earlier than Standard Time in unnatural darkness all winter. It would put sunrise in most states past 8am for 3+ months, and past 8:45am for 1+ weeks. It chronically deprives sleep, decreases productivity (by 5%), and increases illnesses and accidents (by 20%). It was last implemented in the US in 1974 and repealed the same year following deaths and disruptions to commerce. 👉 Tell your US House reps asap to amend MVMA (H.R.7389) to remove SPA (H.R.139) or to reword for nationwide restoration of permanent Standard Time with a clearer option for the minority of states to choose unhealthy/unsafe permanent DST by advancement of their own time zones if so strongly desired (though why DST proponents don’t simply start their own days an hour early remains boggling).
ALT Maps and photos of each ContUS time zone showing winter mornings on permanent Standard Time versus permanent Daylight Saving Time, plus map of current time zones, diagram explaining difference in the two clocks, assortment of historical news articles from US’s last experiment in pDST, and pie chart of recent polling.
We prefer fair and balanced clocks. Daylight Saving Time is a mandate to wake early and sleep less. Permanent Standard Time keeps the sun’s zenith at noon—best for health and safety!
No, Mr. President! Permanent DST has been tried before and COSTS LIVES! Please do not repeat failed history, and restore permanent STANDARD TIME instead!
No. Fall back to permanent Standard Time, then leave it. Humans need morning light to wake naturally, for health, safety, mood, education, and economy.
NO! We need to END Daylight Saving Time and restore permanent STANDARD TIME instead! Health, safety, education and economy needs Standard Time’s morning light!
Dear Mr President,
Gallup just released a poll showing most Americans want permanent Standard Time, not permanent Daylight Saving Time, by a two-to-one margin!
Permanent Standard Time is naturally best for health, safety, and prosperity. Eliminate DST!
@realDonaldTrump@POTUS
This ought to be the final time we change our clocks!
Daylight Savings is a relic that disrupts our natural rhythms and serves no real purpose in the modern world.
We need to end this for good!
#MAHA
No, fall back and stay there. Permanent DST darkens winter mornings, reduces sleep, and endangers morning commuters. Health, safety, and prosperity need Standard Time’s morning light!
NO. Permanent DST darkens winter mornings past 8am for several months, even as late as 9am. It’s dangerous for essential workers, schoolchildren, and overall health. Permanent Standard Tine is the best way to end clock change!
NO! Daylight Saving Time does not create more sunshine—it just forces Americans to wake early and sleep less. Permanent Standard Time is the lasting, healthiest, and most popular way to end clock change.
It’s time we pass the Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Let’s give families in Florida and across the nation the much-needed benefit of more sunshine and make this ‘spring forward’ the last one!
rickscott.senate.gov/2025/3/…
No. Permanent DST would force millions to start school or work in the dark. It cost lives in 1974. Permanent Standard Time instead is naturally healthier and safer. #DitchDST#SaveStandardTime
Yes! Daylight Saving Time mandates waking early and losing sleep. Permanent Standard Time keeps our clocks aligned with the sun—best for circadian health!
Coach, Daylight Saving Time does not create more daylight, and morning darkness is WORSE for Seasonal Affective Disorder! We need to end clock change by restoring healthy, permanent Standard Time!
No! DST costs lives, and permanent DST costs more. Permanent Standard Time is the honest clock, set to the sun, best for circadian rhythms and natural health! #DitchDST@ryansaavedra
Daylight Saving Time needs to be made permanent.
What needs to be eliminated is the switch back and forth with Standard Time.
Get rid of Standard Time and stick with Daylight Saving Time.
Thank you, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), for having the courage and ethics to stop permanent DST yesterday! 👏 Everyone, tell your state and federal lawmakers to file new legislation for permanent Standard Time!
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NO! Permanent DST has been tried before and failed, costing lives and millions of dollars. Morning daylight is essential to good mental health, safety, productivity and education. End clock changes with permanent Standard Time instead!
Every day, I hear from Americans who are sick and tired of changing their clocks back and forth.
It’s time to pass my Sunshine Protection Act and lock the clock!
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) requested voice consent on “Sunshine Protection” permanent Daylight Saving Time, and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) opposed. Thank you! Permanent Standard Time is needed instead!
The people advocating for the Standard time which we are in now which is absolutely ridiculous getting dark at 530 pm when everyones driving home from work & makes driving more dangerous & NO daylight when you get home from work . Also, no one needs it to be light at 6 a.m..
I hope we switch back in the spring & then never change clocks again. We were told this was done with , very disappointed @SecRubio
Senator, the Sunshine Protection Act has it wrong. We should bring back permanent Standard Time, which aligns our clocks naturally with the sun. Switching to permanent Daylight Saving Time would force Americans to commute to work and school in the dark for months every winter!
It’s time to end the nonsense back and forth of changing the clocks twice a year!
I had the opportunity to join @SenateCommerce today to talk about my Sunshine Protection Act and push to finally LOCK THE CLOCK. ☀️
NO. Permanent DST darkens winter mornings past 8am for several months, even as late as 9am. It’s dangerous for essential workers, schoolchildren, and overall health. Permanent Standard Time is the best way to end clock change!
Always Standard Time. Daylight Saving Time mandates early waking, less sleep, and poorer health. Health, safety, economy and education need Standard Time’s morning light!
No. Permanent DST makes winter sunrise too late. People need morning daylight to wake up, feel alert, and drive safely. Restore permanent Standard Time instead—keep clocks neutral and healthy!
No, fall back and stay there. Permanent DST darkens winter mornings, reduces sleep, and endangers morning commuters. Health, safety, and prosperity need Standard Time’s morning light!
We are! Standard Time is more natural, keeping the sun at its highest point around noon. Daylight Saving Time falsifies clocks to appease Big Golf and retail lobbyists at the expense of health.
“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST
We prefer fair and balanced clocks. Daylight Saving Time is a mandate to wake early and sleep less. Permanent Standard Time keeps the sun’s zenith at noon—best for health and safety!
“Sunshine Protection” is permanent Daylight Saving Time, meaning sunrise past 8am for 3+ months in most states. OPPOSE and AMEND to permanent Standard Time, for health!
Yes, and the latest Gallup polling shows Americans want permanent Standard Time!
With good reason, too. Americans are tired of losing sleep and being tricked into waking early on Daylight Saving Time.
No, Mr. President! Daylight Saving Time costs lives, permanent DST would cost more! Health, safety, economy, education, and prosperity need Standard Time's morning light!
DST misaligns clocks to force early waking in darkness. Permanent Standard Time is naturally best for health, mood, safety, education, and economy. Tell lawmakers! Text SST to 50409. #DitchDST#SaveStandardTime
ALT Comparison photos of permanent DST (dark skies at 8am) versus permanent Standard Time (sunlit skies at 8am) from across the USA.
ALT Maps of the USA on permanent Standard Time (sunrise is before 8am in most places) versus permanent DST (sunrise 8am–9am in most places).
ALT Quotation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine endorsing permanent Standard Time for natural sleep health.
NO! Permanent DST costs lives when tried. It puts sunrise in most states past 8am for 3+ months, as late as 9am. Health, safety, and prosperity need permanent Standard Time.
Senator, the Sunshine Protection Act has it wrong. We should bring back permanent Standard Time, which aligns our clocks naturally with the sun. Switching to permanent Daylight Saving Time would force Americans to commute to work and school in the dark for months every winter!
No! Permanent DST would force us to school and work in the dark for the next six months! Only permanent Standard Time is safe and healthy. Please amend! #DitchDST
No law can turn winter into summer. Daylight Saving Time forces early waking, chronically deprives sleep. Permanent Standard Time aligns clocks to circadian rhythms for health! #DitchDST#SaveStandardTime#SleepHealth#MAHA
ALT Meme: Panel from a vintage comic book: Robin (the Boy Wonder) begins to say “I like Daylight Saving—”. Batman (the World’s Greatest Detective) slaps him with the good-sense reply “No, you like summer!”
Let’s stop going back and forth and make daylight savings time permanent.
It’s time to pass my and @SenRickScott's Sunshine Protection Act and LOCK THE CLOCK! ⏰ 🔒 ☀️
Daylight Saving Time forces early waking, and if extended into winter, would send sunrise times later than 8am—even as late as 9am! Permanent Standard Time keeps winter mornings sunlit, best for health and safety.
No. Sunshine does not need protection—sleep does! America is sleep deprived, permanent DST would make it worse. Restore permanent Standard Time for healthful sleep!
NATURE MAKES DAYS LONGER, NOT DST! Permanent DST would send millions to school/work in the dark half the year. Restore permanent Standard Time, the clock aligned to nature, for health and safety!
No one wants to start work in the dark. No one wants children slain by sleepy motorists. Permanent Standard Time is safest and healthiest. #DitchDST@FFAFamily
Dear President Trump,
We want Daylight Savings Time.
That’s when it doesn’t get dark at 5pm.
No one wants to leave for work in the dark and arrive back home in the dark.
It’s Standard Time that we want to get rid of.
Lots of Love,
America. ❤️🤍💙
Let’s hope they pick permanent Standard Time! Many senators are still pushing for permanent DST despite evidence showing its great harm to sleep health.
🚨New: Ted Cruz and several other Senators came together today to discuss officially ending Daylight Saving over health and economic risks
Do you support this?
NO! Permanent DST’s late sunrises COSTS CHILDREN’S LIVES when tried. Health, history, safety, and education need Standard Time’s morning light instead!
Yes, but only with permanent Standard Time—the honest clock, set to the sun—to save morning light for health, safety, and prosperity! Permanent DST would be worse than clock change. #DitchDST#SaveStandardTime
Rep @VernBuchanan has it backwards! Sunrises in winter would be later than 8am for 3+ months out of the year, as late as 9am in the dead of winter. It cost lives when last tried. We need permanent Standard Time instead for health and safety!
President Trump is calling for an extension of Daylight Saving Time into winter. Permanent DST would endanger morning commuters with 8am or later sunrise for 2-5 months. We need to end clock change with permanent Standard Time instead!
No. Permanent DST would send winter sunrises later than 8am for 2-5 months, as late as 9am! People need morning sunlight to wake up, feel alert, and drive to work safely. Restore permanent Standard Time instead!
Yes we should, Daylight Saving Time costs hundreds of lives and millions of dollars each year. Days would still be plenty long during the spring and summer on permanent Standard Time.
NO, we need to lock the clock on STANDARD TIME! Daylight Saving Time is a mandate for early waking. Sleep is one of the pillars of good health and wellbeing, permanent Standard Time can help!
NO! Clock change needs to end, but with permanent STANDARD TIME! Permanent DST would mean sunrise in central Texas after 8am for up to four months, endangering morning commuters and schoolchildren!
Permanent Standard Time (natural time) is safest, healthiest, and fairest. #DitchDST
Permanent DST (fast time) has repeatedly failed due to its circadian misalignment, forced early waking, unnatural dark mornings, and chronic sleep deprivation.
No, we need to fall back to Standard Time next week to get morning sunlight back. It’s the spring forward to Daylight Saving Time we must cancel. #DitchDST
Daylight Saving Time does not increase daylight or happiness. Sunrises after 8am for months during winter, with some locations approaching 9am, would significantly worsen mental health.
Open Letter to @elonmusk and @realDonaldTrump, from @RobertMullin
Subject: The Urgent Case for Permanent Standard Time — A Matter of Life, Health, and Prosperity
ALT Open Letter to Elon Musk and President Donald Trump
Subject: The Urgent Case for Permanent Standard Time — A Matter of Life, Health, and Prosperity
Dear Elon Musk and President Donald Trump,
As leaders who value innovation, practicality, and the well-being of the American people, you stand at a pivotal moment to enact a change that could save lives, boost productivity, and align our nation with the fundamental rhythms of human biology. I implore you to reject the misguided push for permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST) and instead champion permanent Standard Time (ST) — a system proven to be safer, healthier, and more equitable. The evidence is overwhelming, the stakes are high, and history has already shown us the deadly consequences of getting this wrong.
The Failed Experiment of Permanent DST
Let’s start with the hard truth: permanent DST has been tried, and it was a…
Thank you, @SenTedCruz, for holding this important discussion. We hope that permanent Standard Time is restored for health, safety, economy, civil liberties, and prosperity!
WATCH: I deliver opening remarks for a @SenateCommerce hearing examining daylight saving time — with a focus on LOCKING THE CLOCK.
This is an important discussion focused on health, economic productivity, and safety.
No. Permanent DST would put Minnesota sunrise past 8am for four months, almost to 9:30am. It cost lives when last tried. #DitchDST! Permanent Standard Time aligns clocks honestly to the sun, for balanced light and circadian health. #SaveStandardTime!
I agree Mr. President.
Let’s pass the Sunshine Protection Act to LOCK THE CLOCK and make changing our clocks twice a year a thing of the past.
foxnews.com/politics/trump-s…
This is going to be unpopular but we should get rid of Daylight Saving Time and be on Standard Time year round.
Standard Time and earlier sunrises are better for our health and circadian rhythm.
Coach, Daylight Saving Time does not create more daylight, and morning darkness is WORSE for Seasonal Affective Disorder! We need to end clock change by restoring healthy, permanent Standard Time!
Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, which means less daylight, longer nights, and a rise in Seasonal Affective Disorder.
It’s long past time we LOCK THE CLOCK.
No! Permanent DST would put sunrise past 8am for 3+ months and past 8:45 for a week in most states. It was tried and repealed in the 1940s and 1970s. Health professionals endorse permanent Standard Time instead, for circadian alignment, sleep health, and public safety. #DitchDST
No. Permanent DST costs lives and money when tried. Permanent Standard Time is the naturally honest clock. Winter mornings need sunlight for health and safety!
“Changing clocks to shift light from the morning to the evening is bad for health and safety… Longer evening light keeps people up later, and morning darkness makes it harder to get going for work or school…
“Morning light cues production of cortisol, a hormone that helps us feel awake and alert. Cortisol dwindles through the evening, darkness triggers the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin…
“People have associated Standard Time with it being cold, winter, dark. Meanwhile spring forward coincides with the return of warmer, longer days. But DST doesn’t buy more light. Winter days are short and summer days are long regardless of how you mark time…
“The safer option is to go for permanent Standard Time… Permanent Standard Time, or natural time, better aligns people’s schedules with the sun year-round…” #DitchDST
ALT Undark Magazine
People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why.
Something is awry about the way we mark time. Can research and policy changes help us reset the clocks?
By Teresa Carr
03.11.2024
In the summer of 2017, when communication professor Jeffery Gentry moved from Oklahoma to accept a position at Eastern New Mexico University, he was pleasantly surprised to find it easier to get up in the morning. The difference, he realized, was early morning light. On September mornings in Portales, New Mexico, Gentry rose with the sun at around 6:30 a.m., but at that time of day in Oklahoma, it was still dark.
As the Earth rotates, the sun reaches the eastern edge of a time zone first, with sunrise and sunset occurring progressively later as you move west. Gentry’s move had taken him from the western side of Central Time in Oklahoma to the eastern edge of Mountain Time. Following his curiosity into the scientific literature, he discovered the field of chronobiology, the study of…
NO! We tried permanent DST in 1974. Alabama helped eliminate it and restore Standard Time. Permanent Standard Time is best for health, safety, and prosperity!
“Permanent Standard Time gives your body a healthier rhythm. Energy, metabolism, and immune system stay more synchronized, lowering risks of chronic conditions.”
NO! Permanent DST has been tried before, and is damaging to sleep health. We need morning sunlight to wake up, feel good, and to be alert. Restore permanent Standard Time instead, the clock set to the sun!
No. Americans want to eliminate Daylight Saving Time with permanent Standard Time. The latest Gallup poll—and your own X poll—show this. Please do not mandate permanent DST and deprive Americans of much needed sleep!
NO to “SUNSHINE PROTECTION”! Permanent DST is a mandate to wake early and sleep less. Permanent Standard Time instead is the only safe/healthful way to lock clocks. Please file the bill on our website!
NO! Permanent DST has been tried before and failed, costing lives and millions of dollars. Morning daylight is essential to good mental health, safety, productivity and education. End clock changes with permanent Standard Time instead!
No! Permanent DST has been tried before and fails each time. We need to restore permanent Standard Time for better sleep, health, economy, education and safety!
No! The Sunshine Protection Act would extend DST permanently into winter and force millions to start hours before sunrise. Health, safety, and economy need morning light, need permanent Standard Time instead! #DitchDST
Yes! Hawaii and Arizona love permanent Standard Time—along with most other countries on Earth! Everyone else can ditch DST and enjoy more healthy sleep!
Daylight saving time is an uneccesary, and outdated habit that we as a nation should end. If Arizona and Hawaii can do without it- so can the other 48 states. It disturbs sleep patterns and has no real utility.
Today’s a great reminder that we should extend Daylight Savings Time all year and stop switching back and forth. It’s the switch that kills. 2020.yang2020.com/policies/e…
Don’t lock to permanent Daylight Saving Time! It would make it dark to 8am or 9am for weeks and months. Natural health needs morning light, needs permanent Standard Time!
No. Permanent DST is a mandate to wake early and sleep less, against health. Permanent Standard Time best aligns us with nature, and is the most popular way to end clock change. #MAHA
We prefer Standard Time! Daylight Saving Time is a government mandate to force early waking. Health, safety and prosperity need Standard Time’s morning light!
Here's how June's sunrise and sunset times would look if we eliminated daylight saving time and didn't "spring forward" this weekend. 🌅⏰
Which do you prefer? Standard time or daylight saving time? Or are you good with the way it is now? bit.ly/43pFQ9R
ALT A picture of two clocks. For the clock on the left, there is a yellow sun at the “12” position, and overlain is the word “THIS”. For the clock on the right, there is a yellow sun at the “1” position, all numbers are rotated 30° counter clockwise, and overlain are the words “NOT THIS”.
Respectfully, Dr. Huberman, permanent DST is worse than clock change and will lead to circadian misalignment. Permanent Standard Time is the lasting, healthiest way to end clock change.
(Most) people prefer sunlight later into the day. The data on mental health say more sun earlier in the day is better, but people would have to get up and view that sunlight to reap the benefits. Data also say “lock the clock” is better than shifting 2x per year so we can’t lose!
Permanent DST has been tried before, and its late sunrises endanger morning commuters and schoolchildren! Only permanent Standard Time is the healthiest way to end clock change.