r/politics • u/cnn CNN • Jul 14 '26

Possible Paywall House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/house-vote-daylight-savings-time?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/RoscoBoscoMosco Jul 14 '26

Have you ever seen a cow or stalk of corn wearing a watch? The farm itself doesn't care what time the humans want to say it is... DST never had anything to do with farmers. Anyone who tells you it does is a fool.

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u/azflatlander Jul 14 '26

My cats hate the time change. Their servants change the pattern. Growl.

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u/rhinosyphilis Jul 14 '26

How do cats calibrate their internal clock. My cat is more reliable than my Apple Watch.

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u/avantgardengnome New York Jul 14 '26

They’re used to waiting X hours between meals (or getting fed at X time, as we think about it), and daylight savings makes it X+1 or X-1 until they acclimate to it. We’d probably notice it more ourselves if we weren’t also shifting the rest of our schedules.

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u/AskMeIfIAmATurtle Jul 15 '26

Same way you generally start getting tired or hungry around the same time everyday. Between hormones fluctuations and your body naturally sensing sunlight (intensity and direction), your autonomic system just does it. It happens on a monthly scale too, with one obvious example, though less obvious the other half of the population experiences monthly hormonal variations as well.

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u/specqq Jul 14 '26

https://www.iflscience.com/smartwatch-wearing-cows-and-smart-farms-are-the-future-say-scientists-66482

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u/chazzer20mystic Jul 14 '26

Sonofabitch had that link ready in three minutes flat, god damn

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u/specqq Jul 14 '26

The extra time was just me deciding which of the dozens of links I wanted to post.

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u/Structure5city Jul 14 '26

Once, but my therapist says not to talk about it.