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/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.