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.
Yes you can always pick an arbitrary time to start with any system.
Everyone could get on EST and it would be no different than everyone being on UTC. UTC isn't some special timing system it's just selecting one timezone to use, like EST.
Imagine if tomorrow the whole US started just using EST. You really think people in California are going to be happy with it? Someone that wakes up at 9 am PST in California would wake up when their clock said 12 pm EST. Their whole daily time routine is shifted 3 hours.
Wake up 8 am PST Lunch 12 pm Dinner 6 pm Sleep 10 pm
It would be
Wake up 14:00 UTC Lunch 20:00 UTC Dinner 2:00 UTC Sleep 6:00 UTC
They would wake up with half the UTC day over and they go to bed early the next day. You'd want to base your day around that? Something like going to gym after dinner would be 3:00 UTC. Yes the daylight level at 3:00 UTC in California is the exact same as 19:00 pm PST. Yet you have to morph your whole schedule around it. Standard time for things like dinner being 18:00 doesn't exist, it is now a random UTC number depending on where you live. 2:00 UTC in California, 23:00 UTC in Maine.
UTC uses the international date line.
Something as simple as a store having a sale for a day. People in California sleep over half thier day unless they were to order in the "morning" before they go to sleep.