Dear Mr. Trump,

I understand that a move might be afoot to have Congress pass a law requiring the entire country to stay on Daylight Savings Time. If so, I encourage you – beg you, indeed – to sign this law when it comes to your desk.

You see, Sir, that by staying in Daylight Savings Time, we never again have to push our clocks back! Ergo, we will have shortened your presidency by one hour! Now, you might not think that one hour could be so significant, but it is, considering the amount of harm that you can do to our country – and to the world – in one hour.

In one hour, you could start a nuclear war. You could order the military to bomb those American cities you don’t like. You could declare martial law. You could call out “those Second Amendment people” – your phrase, not mine – and encourage them to resist lawful authorities in your name. The list of outrages that you might solicit, in any given hour, could go on for pages.

Please, Sir, let’s never push that clock back again. Even for one hour.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger