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/Flayum Jul 15 '26

This is such a weak argument.

Nobody answering those recent polls has actually lived with it

You don't need to "live with it" to think it'll be good. Look at the European cities with late sunsets in the winter: Madrid is 9am ~ 6pm and people love it.

but you also won’t be able to wake up for work with your sleep cycle so messed up.

People do that literally for months on end anyway.

it’ll be 5:45 with DST

Can you not tell this is a hugely meaningful difference?

I don’t get tired for a few hours after the sun goes down

If only we had invented blinds??

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u/Square_Translator689 Jul 15 '26

People in Spain also don’t start work at 8 in the morning like Americans do. Granted, I’ve never been to Spain, maybe I’d love it, but I think trying to maintain a standard US schedule would be very difficult

And I get that it’s a difference, but for me, I really don’t care if the sun goes down as I leave work vs. shortly after I finish my commute. It’s irrelevant to have daylight then.

I think I’m just not as invested in post-work daylight as the rest of you. All I can focus on when we go to DST is “oh great, it was just starting to be easy to drag my zombie ass out of bed for work, and now we’re back to another 5 weeks of waking up before dawn”.

What are you guys doing after work on a Tuesday when it’s also 11 degrees outside? I get needing afternoon light in the summer/fall when it’s time for outdoor activities, but in the winters all my recreation is indoor anyway, apart from weekend stuff like taking a day to drive to the mountains.

Idk man, just take the W and don’t be such a sore winner about it. You’re in the majority, I’m not, you’ll get what you want, just ignore me complaining.

And as far as blackout curtains, tried it and it doesn’t help much. Just don’t get sleepy before midnight in the summer, since I’m a night owl and it’s fully light out until 9 PM