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President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time. In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to office. "The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation," he wrote. Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942. Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether. The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act, had proposed making daylight saving time permanent. The measure was sponsored by Florida Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump has tapped to helm the State Department. "Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary," Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said as the Senate voted in favor of the measure. Health experts have said that lawmakers have it backward and that standard time should be made permanent. Some health groups , including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said that it's time to do away with time switches and that sticking with standard time aligns better with the sun — and human biology. Most countries do not observe daylight saving time. For those that do, the date that clocks are changed varies, creating a complicated tapestry of changing time differences. The U.S. states of Arizona and Hawaii don't change their clocks at all.
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What New Year’s Resolutions Teach Us About Stock Market Trends49ers QB Brock Purdy resumes throwing but status for this week remains unknownThe future of Sydney coach John Longmire is uncertain ahead of a major club announcement on Tuesday afternoon. The Swans declined to comment amid speculation, put to them by this masthead, that Longmire would walk away. Longmire and his manager Liam Pickering were also contacted for comment. Swans coach John Longmire. Credit: AFL Photos The Swans have called a press conference for a “major club announcement” at 1.30pm. One of the most respected and highly regarded coaches in football, the 53-year-old coached the Swans to a premiership in 2012 before suffering grand final losses in 2014, 2016 and 2022. He was contracted for the upcoming season. People close to Longmire have said he had contemplated walking away from the game in recent years to live on his farm. The Swans have a history of succession planning for their new coaches. Longmire took over from Paul Roos under such a plan. Assistant coach Dean Cox has been part of Sydney’s coaching structure since 2017, and currently oversees game strategy and performance and would be considered highly likely to take over from Longmire. The 42-year-old had been a target of West Coast in their hunt for a senior coach, before the Eagles appointed Andrew McQualter, but Cox opted not to pursue the job . Though the Swans have repeatedly denied he is part of a contracted succession plan with Longmire, the six-time All-Australian ruckman has been seen as Longmire’s logical successor. Loading Longmire has been a vocal critic of the AFL’s soft spending cap for football departments, arguing that coaches and staff were being stretched to the limit. “I think the real challenge for the industry is there’s a lot of really good people working but they’re working enormous hours and putting themselves and their families, in some cases, under some stress,” he said in 2021 . More to come. Keep up to date with the best AFL coverage in the country. Sign up for the Real Footy newsletter . Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article AFL 2025 Sydney Swans AFL 2024 Michael Gleeson is an award-winning senior sports writer specialising in AFL and athletics. Connect via Twitter or email . Jake Niall is a Walkley award-winning sports journalist and chief AFL writer for The Age. Connect via Twitter or email . Most Viewed in Sport Loading