NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn off the lights for daylight saving time.
In a post Friday on his social media site, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when it returns to office.
“The Republican Party will do its best to eliminate DST, which has a small but strong voting base, but it shouldn’t do it! DST is inconvenient and very costly to our nation,” he wrote.
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Moving clocks forward an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during the summer months, but has long been under scrutiny meticulous. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942.
Lawmakers have sometimes proposed doing away with the time change altogether. The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill called the Sunshine Protection Act, had proposed making daylight saving time permanent.
The measure was sponsored by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump picked to lead the State Department.
“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said as the Senate voted in favor of the measure.
Health experts said lawmakers have taken things backwards and standard time should be made permanent.
Some health groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said it’s time to do away with timers and that sticking to standard time better aligns with the sun and human biology.
Most countries do not observe daylight saving time. For those who do, the date on which clocks are changed varies, creating a complex tapestry of changing time differences.
Arizona and Hawaii don’t change their clocks at all.
