Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two billionaires tasked by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to find ways to make government more efficient, have hit upon one good idea: ending the obnoxious and inconvenient twice-a-year clock change between daylight saving time (in the summer) and so-called standard time (in the winter).

"Looks like the people want to abolish the annoying time changes!’’ Musk declared on X in response to a poll from a user that found that 82% of the 38,000 respondents supported abolishing the semiannual ritual.

"It’s inefficient & easy to change,’’ Ramaswamy replied, evidently unaware that if it was easy it would have already happened.