Under permanent daylight saving time, the sun would rise at approximately 9:00 a.m. in Minneapolis on January 1.
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The Charlie Kirk ShowAug 5, 2026
Sources put Minneapolis sunrise on January 1 at 7:51 a.m. under standard time, so adding the one hour of permanent DST gives about 8:51 a.m., which rounds to approximately 9:00 a.m. App.com gives 8:51 a.m. for Minneapolis under permanent DST, and the Star Tribune says sunrise would be almost 9 a.m. for several weeks.
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… That, again, the circadian science is pretty robust around this topic. I'm looking at the sunrise. I just i'm plugging in sunrise in different cities on January 1 right now, and then add an hour if we were imagining permanent daylight savings time. It would be you wouldn't have the sun come up in, like, Minneapolis until about 9 a.m. If we were on permanent daylight savings time on this January 1, so one of the shorter days of the year. It's about nine in Detroit. I checked Bismarck, North Dakota, so that's at the far western edge of Central Time: 930, a 930 sunrise there. …
The Charlie Kirk Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Standard-time sunrise for Minneapolis on January 1 is 7:51 a.m. (timeanddate and crunchify), so one hour of permanent DST would put sunrise at about 8:51 a.m.[2][3]
Supports. App.com reports that under a permanent DST act Minneapolis sunrise would be 8:51 a.m. from Dec. 30 through Jan. 5, which covers January 1 and is within rounding of 9:00 a.m.[4]
Supports. The Star Tribune says permanent DST would push Minnesota sunrise to almost 9 a.m. for several weeks, consistent with the claim.[5]
Context. The FactCheck.org and Reuters sources describe the permanent DST proposal and the sunrise shift in general terms but do not give a Minneapolis figure for January 1.[1][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 5 not rated
- 1Trump's Push to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanentfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Sunrise and sunset times in Northeast Minneapolis, January 2026timeanddate.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Minneapolis Sunrise, Sunset & Solar Noon Timescrunchify.net · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4If daylight saving time becomes permanent, how will it affect sunrise across the U.S.?app.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Brown: In Minnesota, our common enemy is darkness, not daylight saving timestartribune.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Is it time to fall back? Whether daylight saving time ends this weekendrmb.reuters.com · not rated · cited for: context
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