Musk Asks X Users About Ending Daylight Saving Time

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Most of Muskโ€™s respondents say theyโ€˜d prefer โ€™an hour later.’ Clocks will move forward Sunday.

Elon Musk has reignited the debate over Daylight Saving Time as most of the country is set to โ€œspring forwardโ€ this weekend.

On Wednesday night, Musk conducted a poll on his social media platform X to get insight into how Americans feel about the time change.

โ€œIf daylight savings time change is canceled, do you prefer: an hour earlier [or] an hour later,โ€ Musk asked his followers in the poll that closed Thursday afternoon.

More than 1.3 million X users participated in Muskโ€™s survey. The poll, which closed Thursday afternoon, shows that 58.1 percent prefer โ€œan hour later, while 41.9 percent voted โ€œan hour earlier.โ€

Clocks are expected to move forward by an hour on Sunday, March 9, starting at 2 a.m. Americans will lose an hour of sleep, but will also get to enjoy the sun later in the evening, at least until November when the clocks โ€œfall backโ€ one hour.

President Donald Trump has long pledged to end the twice-a-year ritual.

โ€œThe Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldnโ€™t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,โ€ Trump wrote in a December 2024 Truth Social post.

In a March 2019 post, during his first term, Trump wrote: โ€œMaking Daylight Saving Time permanent is OK with me!โ€

Currently, only Hawaii and most of Arizona donโ€™t participate in the practice.

Past efforts in Congress to end Daylight Saving have stalled. A bipartisan bill called the Sunshine Protection Act would have eliminated the time change twice a year.

The Senate passed the bill in 2022, but it failed in the House.

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida earlier this year reintroduced it.

โ€œI hear from Americans constantly that they are sick and tired of changing their clocks twice a yearโ€”itโ€™s an unnecessary, decades-old practice thatโ€™s more of an annoyance to families than benefit to them,โ€ Scott said in a Jan. 8 press release. โ€œIโ€™m excited to have President Trump back in the White House and fully on board to lock the clock so we can get this good bill passed and make this common-sense change that will simplify and benefit the lives of American families.โ€

Byย Rachel Acenas

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