Elon Musk has asked Americans to vote whether they are permanently brought forward from clocks or were abolished if daylight savings were abolished.
The billionaire First Buddy has argued for 'canceling' daylight savings throughout the country, in the back of a promise of a Trump campaign to turn the clock back.
On Wednesday, Musk shared a poll on X and asked the participants: 'If the daylight saving time change is canceled, you prefer an hour earlier [or] An hour later. '
From the beginning of Thursday, more than 1.1 million people have responded to his survey in just 13 hours.
About 58 percent participants said they would rather have the clocks be pushed forward for an hour.
Clocks jump an hour ahead on Sunday while the daylight savings begins, which indicates the end of winter and early sunsets.
Musk's report led to a heated debate among lawyers for both options.
'Keep it an hour later – more sunlight in the evening means more productivity, outside time and a natural energy boost. Who really wants it to get dark at 4 p.m., “they said.
Elon Musk has asked Americans to vote whether they are permanently brought forward from clocks or backwards if daylight savings have been abolished
Trump promised to turn the clock back during his election campaign
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On Wednesday evening, Musk shared a poll on X and asked the participants: 'If the daylight saving time change is canceled, you prefer an hour earlier [or] An hour later '
But another person hit back to notice: 'Standard time. You cannot cut the bottom of a blanket and sew it to the top and make a longer blanket. '
In November Musk said that it seems that people want to abolish the annoying time changes', which an immediate response from Trump's eldest son Don Jr.
“100 percent,” he wrote, with the help of emojis. “Always leave daylight savings.”
His former partner at the Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek RamasWamy, agreed and added: “It is inefficient and easy to change.”
Although Musk has left all his mark on the government for his radical changes in departments and the ability to purify inflated authorities, a change in daylight savings would be his most far -reaching decision to date that influences the lives of every American.
Some states have fought to abolish practice, even before Trump weighed the annual event at the end of last year.
“The Republican party will use its best efforts to eliminate the daylight, which has a small but strong constituency, but should not!” Trump wrote on his social social platform in December.
“Daylight savings is awkward and very expensive for our nation.”
Musk's message led to a heated debate among lawyers for both options
In November Musk said that it seems that people want to abolish the annoying time changes', which would cause an immediate response from Trump's eldest son Don JR
Hawaii never observed daylight savings and Arizona stopped this in 1968
Trump's truth social post called the seasonal change 'uncomfortable' and 'very expensive for our nation'
Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that observe standard time throughout the year.
Hawaii never observed daylight savings, while Arizona stopped this in 1968.
The US Senate has approved a bill to make daylight savings permanent in 2022, but it was unable to pass in the house.
'[T]We all went through that biennial ritual around the clock to change back and forth last weekend, and the disruption that goes with it, “said Senator Marco Rubio at the time.
'And after a while one has to ask themselves:' Why do we keep doing it? Why are we doing this? '' '
Rubio, now State Secretary, has been another pronounced advocate for abolishing the change.
Legislation that influences daylight saving time is currently being considered in several states, according to Fortune.
The states that insist on permanent daylight -saving time are Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois and Iowa.
Almost two dozen other states – including California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania – have proposed to make standard time permanent.
The nation observed permanent daylight time in 1974-1975. That happened during the oil crisis.
According to a New York Times account when it was withdrawn, parents were worried about traffic accidents involving their children, who went to school on the winter morning in the Predawn Darkness, “although a study of a transport department did not give a clear picture of an increase.
