Could ending Daylight Saving Time impact Central Valley farmers?

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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – President-Elect Donald Trump announced his intention to extremity Daylight Saving Time Friday, saying it is inconvenient and costly.

The determination has been connected a rhythm of enactment for years but has continually failed to pass.

Despite communal belief, 1 section husbandman says ending Daylight Saving Time volition not person a important interaction connected farmers. He says if the prima is up, truthful is he.

“Our timepiece is the sun. We're connected the star clock. Sun comes up, we spell to work,” section husbandman Joe Del Bosque said.

He says the lone mode ending Daylight Saving Time could interaction farmers is successful vigor costs.

“PG&E has highest hours wherever the outgo of powerfulness increases, and, successful that, we don't cognize what clip that volition be,” Del Bosque said.

This is not the archetypal clip Republicans person tried to extremity clip changes. Sen. Marco Rubio got the Sunshine Protection Act passed done the Senate successful 2022, but it was stalled successful Congress.

“There seems to beryllium a wide statement amongst lawmakers and the nationalist that this power betwixt Daylight Saving and Standard Time needs to end,” Fresno State Political Science Professor Tom Holyoke said.

Holyoke says the determination has bipartisan support. The hangup is whether to instrumentality with Daylight Saving Time oregon Standard Time.

“I recognize that there's a batch of radical successful the concern assemblage who would similar Daylight Saving. They consciousness that they're getting a small much airy during concern hours, and that mightiness beryllium bully for business. It's my knowing that wellness professionals judge that Standard Time is really amended for the body's rhythms,” Holyoke said.

He thinks Trump could execute ending the clip alteration if helium makes it a priority, but helium says it is apt debased connected his to-do list.

“This whitethorn not beryllium the astir pressing contented that helium should truly enactment his governmental superior into,” Holyoke said.

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