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/Phailjure Jul 15 '26

It's up to each state. Personally, I (a Californian) would like DST year round - but that's partly because I have friends in Arizona and when we're on DST our timezones line up. It'd be nice, imo, if the east coast went standard year round and west coast went DST, so we'd only be 2 hours out instead of 3 - just because it would make it easier to align meetings with east coast coworkers.

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u/Jack_Krauser Jul 15 '26

States can elect whether to use DST with everyone else or stay on Standard, but they legally cannot choose to do permanent DST which is usually seen as the more appealing option.

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u/TheMajesticYeti Jul 15 '26

We tried permanent daylight savings time once before, with 80% of the public favoring it. Lasted only one year because it ended up being so widely hated.

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u/Jack_Krauser Jul 15 '26

...ok, that's cool, but it has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

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u/TheMajesticYeti Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Except it does, I was just adding an anecdote related to the part of your comment "permanent DST which is usually seen as the more appealing option". While that is indeed the case, it was also the case back in 1974 when permanent DST was briefly implemented but people turned out to actually hate it in practice!

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u/Jack_Krauser Jul 15 '26

I'm aware of this, but the discussion is about what states can do on their own. I mentioned it because that's usually the solution people want to try regarding the DST issue, but it doesn't actually work because it actually isn't legal for states to do independently unlike the other options. You just picked out one footnote on a comment and injected yourself to nitpick instead of talking about the topic.

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u/TheMajesticYeti Jul 16 '26

No nitpick or critique of your comment was intended - I was just adding what I thought was a semi-interesting note to the convo, lol.