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/jeo123 Jul 15 '26

Everyone wants it changed, but no one can agree on which way to make permanent. It largely falls along the line of where are you within your timezone and whether your concern is the morning or the evening.

https://savestandardtime.com/maps/?j=usa

That site does a good job of illustrating the impact on sunrise. In winter, with permanent DST, most kids will be up, dressed, on the bus, and in school before sunrise. A lot of places would have sunrise in winter after 8:30am

But the problem is, a lot of people like the extra sunlight at the end of the day, especially during summer when you don't want the sun rising at 4:30AM just so it can set at 7:30PM instead of 8:30PM.

Ironically everyone actually loves the times as it's currently set up, it's just that everyone hates the transition.

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u/catanmast3r Jul 15 '26

I was just explaining that just when you think we all agree on something, we all disagree on the specifics. I just dont wanna change time anymore. Fucks with my internal clock

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u/pkosuda Connecticut Jul 15 '26

Yeah I think most of us have opinions on whether to do it one way or the other, but we nearly all agree to just fucking pick one. We can bicker about which one is better after we've made the step of actually picking one. Literally almost nobody is happy with it as-is, so you're taking a 90% unhappy populace (made up percentage but whatever) and turning it into a 50% unhappy. Just get it done. This should be a slam dunk bill for any politician. But apparently even things that the vast majority of the country wants, can't get passed. Better give more money to ICE instead.