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US to return to standard time Sunday as lawmakers rebuff Trump push

President Donald Trump's months-long push to prod lawmakers ​to end the twice yearly practice of changing the ​clocks -- including posting the phone number of ‌a US ​senator this month -- has run out of time this year. The United States will return to standard time on Sunday at 2 a.m. ET and it will continue ‌until March 14, despite Trump's repeated efforts to convince the Senate to follow the US House and make daylight saving time permanent year round. Earlier this month, Trump shared the phone number of Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who has been a strong ‌critic of making daylight saving time permanent, in a push to get him to support the bill. He called dozens ‌of other senators seeking their support. "The United States Senate is letting the Daylight Saving Time bill die," Trump wrote this week on social media, again urging action. The US House of Representatives in July voted 308-117 to end the twice-yearly practice of changing clocks observed across most of the nation ⁠since the...