Editor’s note: This weekend marks the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, as Michiganders sprang forward. The biannual time change pushes daylight hours later during the summer months ‒ and causes its share of controversy. In 2024, President Donald Trump pledged to end the practice, but waffled in 2025. In the U.S. Congress, last month Rep. Greg Steube, R-Florida, introduced the Daylight Act of 2026. It’s been referred to committee. Last year, Michigan Sen. Thomas Albert, R-Lowell, introduced a bill that would let voters weigh in on Daylight Saving Time. Referred to committee in February of 2025, it is, effectively, dead in the water.
This letter writer isn’t having it. Dan Zabukovec was among a handful of readers who wrote in 2025 to tell us they’re sick of Daylight Saving time. A year later, he’s astonished that nothing has changed.
What do you think? Tell us in a letter to the editor at freep.com/letters, and we may publish it in print or online ‒ or vote in our (totally unscientific) poll below. And ‒ sigh ‒ don’t forget to spring forward.
It’s like we’re all in ‘Groundhog Day’
A letter I sent last year, guess what … Nothing changed! It’s like I’m in the movie “Groundhog Day.”
Can we make progress on Daylight Saving Time?
I’ve been hearing the debate about Daylight Saving Time all my life, and it’s always the same thing. All the neighboring states and Canadian provinces say the same thing, let’s wait and see what the other guys do before we make a decision. It’s no wonder there’s all this bluster in politics, when politicians can’t even agree on something that’s free.
Dan Zabukovec
Acton, Ontario
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