Well, here we are again … about to lose another hour of our lives.
Tomorrow, despite the (very soft) promises of the new administration and the incoming Republican majority, we will have to turn our clocks back once again for Daylight Saving Time. We will only gain it back again on November 2nd. In fairness, Donald Trump and Republicans have not exactly spent their first weeks lounging by the fireside and resting on their laurels. Congress also has a looming shutdown deadline that occupies all of their attention. The hope for some that we had seen our last round of “spring forward, fall back” was always a little unrealistic.
Even if Trump and Congress had any bandwidth at all for ending DST, it turned out to be a tougher task than they anticipated. Trump admitted that much earlier in the week:
“Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to…
