
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time.
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In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to office.
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” he wrote.
Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942.
Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether. The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act, had proposed making daylight saving time permanent.
The measure was sponsored by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump has tapped to helm 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“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen.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 have said that lawmakers have it backward and that standard time should be made permanent.
Some health groups, including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said that it’s time to do away with time switches and that sticking with standard time aligns better with the sun — and human biology.
Most countries do not observe daylight saving time. For those that do, the date that clocks are changed varies, creating a complicated tapestry of changing time differences.
Arizona and Hawaii don’t change their clocks at all.
Standard time makes more sense for frum Jews on pesach seder nights long summer Shabosim and getting small children to bed on time. When we have late seders it hard to keep the little ones at the seder and many Uninformed Jews eat their Matzah even the afikomen while the sun is still shining and not Balaylo Hazeh thereby missing the opportunity of fulfilling the only Mitzvah we have from the Torah of eating anything nowadays.
This is different than what Rubio wanted. He wanted to keep dst. Now they want to keep standard. There will be no problem with netz being late . Only problem will be that soif zman krias shema on June 20 will be 7:16 for those who wake up later
Daylight savings time wasn’t in Ha Shems plan
I would tell my kids in the summer , that yes, it is daylight outside because the gov fiddled with the clocks
It wasn’t meant to be this way
We should really make a compromise and move the clock ahead permanently by only 1/2 hour.
Yes, there are places offset by 1/2 hour and even 45 minutes.
The U.S. might even be trendsetter with this.
And with people using computers and smart watches nowadays to look up different time zones, this is more doable than in the past.
Heshy Tischler Fights to Protect the Education Rights of Vulnerable Yeshiva Students
By: Chaim Eisen
Earlier this year, thousands of New York City students with disabilities who attend private school were denied critical special education services due to the city’s sudden strict enforcement of a June 1 application deadline. These services are known as the Individualized Education Services Programs (IESPs) such as speech therapy, academic tutoring, and specialized learning support—all of which are legally mandated to ensure equitable educational access for students with disabilities.
The Department of Education and Mayor Adams administration announced they are now offering vouchers to these students who request special education services, however, the vouchers come with a major condition: families of children in private schools must sign a waiver giving up their right to sue the city for the denial of services or to seek retroactive compensation for the missed services that they had to pay out-of-pocket.
While the vouchers may help Yeshiva families quickly resume services, signing the waiver means giving up the legal right to challenge the city’s determinations on which services the child is entitled to. Critics, including lawmakers and special education advocates, argue that this is unfair and puts families under pressure to accept an inadequate solution without recourse.
Heshy Tischler strongly condemns the city’s proposition, which he says unfairly discriminates against Yeshiva students in need of special education services. Tischler said, “It’s unconscionable that families are being put in the position of choosing between getting their children the help they need and giving up their right to seek legal recourse,” and asserts, “this is a direct attack on our community’s most vulnerable children.”
Tischler argues that no child’s right to education should be contingent on their parents’ ability to navigate bureaucratic red tape, effectively transforming education as a fundamental right, into a conditional privilege that depends on a family’s legal acumen and navigational skills. Tischler said, “A child’s access to education should never depend on a waiver or a parent’s capacity to jump through arbitrary hoops, you cannot sign away a child’s right to education.”
By championing these children, Heshy Tischler is not only advocating for immediate change but also advocating for systemic reforms and a more equitable system—one that ensures every student, regardless of the school they attend, receives the education they deserve. His tireless efforts have made him a hero in the fight to protect the educational rights of New York City’s most vulnerable students.
Ok, Ms. Ivanka. Please explain to your father how this is not good for kids going on a school bus and men going to Shacharis before work. Thanks.
ron desantis would be ,more normal than that
Now I REALLY regret not voting for Kama lala…