The daylight saving time changes are not popular among Americans, according to a poll.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 47 percent of respondents said they either “somewhat oppose” or “strongly oppose” today’s “current system of daylight saving time where most states change the clocks twice a year.”
Meanwhile, 40 percent in the poll said when it comes to the daylight saving time system they “neither favor nor oppose” it and 12 percent were “strongly” or “somewhat” for it.
Daylight saving time, when most clocks advance by an hour, started in March and finishes Sunday.
Earlier this year, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) reintroduced legislation to enforce daylight saving time for the whole year.
“I hear from Americans constantly that they are sick and tired of changing their clocks twice a year – it’s an unnecessary, decades-old practice that’s more of an annoyance to families than benefit to them,” Scott said in a previous statement.
Late last year, President Trump said Republicans would work to get rid of daylight saving time, referring to it as “inconvenient” and “costly.”
“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,” Trump posted on Truth Social last December.
If asked to choose, 56 percent in the AP-NORC poll said they wanted “permanent daylight saving time,” while 42 percent said they wanted “permanent standard time.”
The AP-NORC poll took place Oct. 9-13, featuring 1,289 people and plus or minus 3.8 percentage points as its margin of sampling error.
