On Sunday, in a long, rambling Truth Social post, President Donald Trump revealed the real reason he's been pushing for permanent Daylight Saving Time. Unsurprisingly, it's for the benefit of golf. What's more, in the same post, he doxxed a Republican senator by revealing his personal cell phone number.
"Everybody in Arkansas, [Senator] Tom Cotton (R-AK), a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill," posted the president. "It’s called, 'The Sunshine Protection Act' or, 'We Don’t Want to Change Our Clocks Twice a Year Act.' For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one! It should pass overwhelmingly, in a Bipartisan fashion. So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all. Nobody wants to spend their precious time running all over the place, turning Clocks back twice a year and, having sunshine in the afternoon is better than early in the morning!"
Here Trump tipped his hand, revealing his actual justification for the bill: "The PGA TOUR, as an example, needs more Daylight in the afternoon in order to finish their Tournaments. Likewise, regular Golfers, Tennis Players, Hunters and, perhaps most importantly, Farmers who want more Daylight to play or work. See letter from Brian Rolapp, CEO of the PGA TOUR below. 65 percent PLUS want more sun in the afternoon, Daylight Saving Time (The way it is now!), but 100 percent don’t want to change their Clocks twice a year. They want to, as they say, 'LOCK THE CLOCK!' Who doesn’t? It’s very expensive for our Nation where you have high and dangerous steeples to reach, like on churches and municipal buildings. Almost everybody wants 'The Sunshine Protection Act' to pass, except for Tom Cotton. To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself. Call Tom on his cellphone..." The president went on to reveal what he asserts is Cotton's actual phone number.
UTC doesn't mean everyone has to start at the same time
Correct.
it just means that 15:00 is 15:00 without calculating offsets, DST boundaries, or the international date line.
Correct, no offsets.
Incorrect, there's no such thing as DST boundaries. Only timezones.
Incorrect, the international date line exists in UTC
But how do you determine when everyone has to start?
People in Michigan could be in MST. They are in CST.
If they went to MST and then went to permanent MDT then it would be just like permanent CST. This is what people don't understand. Someone in Michigan could hate Daylight Savings Time, but if you told them that their standard time should be changed, then they might want permanent daylight savings time to get it back to "normal"
There is no way to make everyone happy
Depending on how close you live one way or the other to a time zone depends how much you like DST for the most part because it makes it matter more. Also north and south matters.
But if you live in a northwest corner of a time zone you probably hate the idea of permanent DST because your standard time could be a whole hour earlier moving just a yard over.