Lock the Clock: Trump Is Right, and the Senate Should Finally Take a Vote on Daylight Saving Time

Americans turn their clocks back an hour early Sunday, again, because the Sunshine Protection Act passed the House in July and then stalled in the Senate. The president has told senators to "TAKE A VOTE!" When Congress returns after Election Day, they should.

By Clara Hughes

At 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, November 1, most of America does something hardly anybody wants to do: we turn the clocks back an hour. Now comes the familiar routine: groggy mornings, dark drives home by suppertime, and a microwave clock that stays wrong until spring. It did not have to happen this year. In July, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act, the bill that would make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-a-year switch. Then it stalled in the Senate, which left Washington for an extended election recess without voting on it, USA Today reported. President Trump has been blunt about it. "The United States Senate is letting the Daylight Saving Bill die, when a vast Majority of the Country want it," he wrote on Truth Social on October 26. "Most people are demanding light in the evening, but ALL want not to change their clocks anymore. TAKE A VOTE!" He is right on both counts. The country wants