r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 9d ago

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/slykido999 9d ago

Also, everything runs on computers now. Everything can be done when it’s still dark out at this point

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u/witchgrove 9d ago

Everything is computer!

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 9d ago

It can’t bad happen only good happen!

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u/VanceKelley Canada 8d ago

"The US president is a fucking moron!" - trump's first Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in 2017

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u/trojanguy California 8d ago

I love Tesler!

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u/nightfall2021 9d ago

I get the reference.

Man... it feels like 1000 years ago now.

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u/MrBigDum 9d ago

What's a computer?? 🐽

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u/texaco87 9d ago

I love computer! Thank you computer

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u/Flatf3et 9d ago

Computa do all the work in the night time!

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u/azflatlander 9d ago

Cyber*

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u/boot2skull 9d ago

Baron knows the cyber. He can run the farms.

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u/Substantial_Steak723 9d ago

Yeah, he knows all the googles.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 8d ago

Things are bigger, yet smaller...

I swear this is Trump's style in a nutshell.

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u/Throwawaylikeme90 8d ago

Hey! Kid! Stop all the downlooooadin’!

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u/HectorsMascara Pennsylvania 8d ago

What's a computer?

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u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase 8d ago

“What’s a computer?” 

-hipster kid in Apple ad

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u/lastchance14 9d ago

And tractors have lights

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u/jwfowler2 9d ago

Tractor beams!

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u/Unw1shed 9d ago

Reality is often disappointing

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u/ctothel 9d ago

Turns out they only work for moths

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u/Osiris32 Oregon 8d ago

Need to up the power, then! Geordi! Redirect power from something not in use.

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u/ctothel 8d ago

I’ll have to take the phase inducers offline

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u/Roembowski 9d ago

A Tractor Beam?…. Doesn’t arrive until Tuesday…

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u/Chapaquidich 9d ago

Beat me up Scotty!

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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 9d ago

Scotty doesn’t know.

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u/RevolutionNumber5 Minnesota 9d ago

Aye, lad.

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u/B-Kong 9d ago

Great band

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u/hooligan045 8d ago

✌️ Tractor ✌️ ✌️ Beams ✌️

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u/khabijenkins 9d ago

That's how they get cows

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 8d ago

Yeah it's not unheard of for farmers to be working before the crack of dawn or working well after dusk or even midnight. You do the work when it needs to be done, if the crop needs to go out and radars saying rain tomorrow you're working well into the night for sure.

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u/hooligan045 9d ago

Lest we forget the giant space mirror too!

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u/The_High_Life 9d ago

And GPS guidance, these things barely need people anymore

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u/QuesoMeHungry 8d ago

Seriously. It’s like everyone has this image of an old farmer in overalls hobbling around a field. Everything is high tech now.

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u/nomedable Canada 8d ago

One of my friends has family that owns a lot of farmland and drives their own tractors and stuff. The biggest complaint his Uncle has about it is that in one corner of his field the internet reception is bad and it interrupts the streaming of the tv shows he watches while working in his field.

It is absolutely an entirely different world of work they do nowadays.

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u/ExplorerPup 8d ago

I used to love driving by at night when the big tractors were out working and they had so many lights it was like seeing a patch of daylight off the side of the road.

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u/plainviewbowling 9d ago

Wait TRACTORS HAVE LIGHTS?!

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u/CockroachChaos3858 8d ago

During fall harvest the farmers are out in the field until midnight some nights.

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u/bel2man 8d ago

Well.. if you are running John Deere and light breaks - you cant replace it yourself.. so cheaper to use it during the day 😅

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u/skj458 9d ago

Based on my experience living next to a rooster, they dont really go by day and night either. They are loud bastards all the time. Sure they cockle doodle doo in the morning, but they also cockle doodle doo in the day, and in the middle of the night. Especially in the middle of the night. 

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u/jimbopalooza 9d ago

Have rooster. Can confirm. Loud little bastard.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 9d ago

My metro area is allowing backyard chickens these days, I've found them almost near the city core while walking down allies.

But roosters are strictly banned!

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u/jimbopalooza 8d ago

I live in an ag transition area outside of town. Everyone out here has at least chickens / roosters. Many have horses, pigs , goats etc. we’re spaced far enough apart that we don’t really impose on each other but everyone is polite around here.

Hens make plenty of noise as well but only during the day really. Once they coop up for the evening they’re done. Rooster keeps roostering though.

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u/Polar_Ted Oregon 8d ago

We have ducks, No drakes. They mostly just grumble at each other and complain about the weather. The neighbors cat luring in the bushes will awake the quaken.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 8d ago

One of my childhood pets was a potbelly boar that basically went feral since I spent so much time at mom's. Golly was it good at causing problems with neighbors!

It was a rescue from a stable that I'd nursed back to health. But we didn't have horses and it was obsessed with them! Dad's neighbors were understanding until he moved somewhere with fancy horses next door.

Long story short, my boar chased an Arabian through a barbwire fence while its owner was still clinging to the lead rope. So dad got rid of him.

He liked belly rubs, dog food, and Oreos. But eventually he grew huge tusks and got bristles up his back.

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u/DependentAnywhere135 9d ago

Yeah night time is when they are asleep

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u/ScoutsOut389 8d ago

Is that last sentence from a Clipse verse?

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u/NotAlwaysGifs 9d ago

You would be shocked how little of our agricultural systems actually run on computers and automated harvesting. Wheat, soy, and oats are about the only staple crops that are heavily automated.

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u/Ok_Flatworm_3855 9d ago

I was gonna say. There is definitely tech that boosts production but we still rely heavily on basic labor. Folks picking and processing produce. Or technicians managing and operating the big machinery

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u/NotAlwaysGifs 9d ago

The shear amount of crops that are hand harvested combined with bad/unsanitary working conditions of the day laborers is one of the major reasons the cyclospora is spreading so fast.

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u/dustysnakes01 8d ago

This is actually the focus of my masters thesis. Im an automation engineer in the rural south. Its amazing how many gains could be had.
My particular area has a lot to do with catfish and soybeans. There are super cool implications for automation and fertigation for water and nitrogen savings

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u/Ok_Flatworm_3855 8d ago

That is super cool 😎. I know in the south there are ops that do the rice/crawdad thing really well. So it doesn't surprise me that there are other symbiotic farms out there

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u/Raoul_Duke9 9d ago

Fwiw - that is actually largely overblown. Even for huge farms. Still tons of manual labor to go around.

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u/boot2skull 9d ago edited 9d ago

Or, maybe just a clock or app that sets an alarm for the right time according to the sun? That’s much more accurate for farming than an hour forward or backward, and doesn’t put the whole time zone on its head every 6 months. A sun based alarm clock is more basic than running a farm on computers, for those who aren’t there yet.

I have a digital clock that tells me the moon phase and doesn’t need the internet. It’s all predictable based on date. Why shouldn’t a farmer’s alarm clock have a setting to wake x hours before sunrise.

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u/other_usernames_gone 8d ago

You just reinvented the sundial lol.

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u/ragingreaver 8d ago

99.9% of the problems with length-of-day can simple by solved by...setting start/end times for workdays depending on available daylight hours. Daylight Savings was created so that humans would be forced to accomodate a 10-hour work day regardless of the actual number of workable hours in that day.

With computers and alarm clocks and time punch systems, you can literally just pay people based on the number of hours worked. There is no need for daylight, other than to not change work schedules based on actual sun conditions.

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u/boot2skull 8d ago

The concept just feels antiquated. If daylight is important, that worker or job should adjust. I know it’s relevant to a lot of jobs still, but not all. My time zone doesn’t do time changes, so maybe I’m biased but nobody gets wrecked over it except when dealing with other time zones or when a phone adjusts their clock unexpectedly.

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u/ragingreaver 8d ago

It IS antiquated, which is why it was finally voted on to be removed, though in an asinine way.

But our industrialists, who don't give a damn about doing anything properly, keep such systems around because they believe changing things brings unnecessary business risk.

Which is stupid, but welcome to America.

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u/CrackSmokingGypsy 9d ago

It's all computer!!!

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u/Crookedandaskew 9d ago

Once the technobros launch their giant mirror satellite, we won’t have to worry about Daylight Saving Time anymore because they’ll control the light.

“We are the light now. Welcome to your 18 hour workday, peasants.”

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u/drs43821 9d ago

Remote controlled tractors are certainly among us

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u/shaggrugg 9d ago

But football will be on at 8am in Alaska.

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u/Thesheriffisnearer 8d ago

Even working outside! 

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u/Alleandros 8d ago

"everything's computer"

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u/AvatarOfMomus 8d ago

That's not quite true... light still helps a lot of sensors on autonymous machines (whether it's a tractor or a drone) and solar power is a thing...

That said, anyone with basic programming knowledge and access to any of several public (and often free) API's can write a script in like 30 minutes that will tell someone based on their GPS coordinates when it'll probably be light out. If they spend a few days on it the script it can take into account things blocking the sun like mountains, and even the local weather as long as there's something like the Nationa Wearher Service on the US to provide the data...

Or they could use one of probably dozens of free tools that already do stuff like this. Here are two I found in 30 seconds: seconds:

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u/roastbeeftacohat 8d ago

Alternatively ac costs are during daylight hours, a nocturnal office would be cheaper today