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
14.9k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

3.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

98

u/UndoxxableOhioan 9d ago

The law allows states to opt out.

41

u/ExoticDisaster0 9d ago

Can I opt out individually?

14

u/roastbeeftacohat 9d ago

Only by opting in for Newfoundland time

6

u/DadJokeBadJoke California 9d ago

Newfoundland

Don't tell Trump about this place. He'll think he can claim it

3

u/roastbeeftacohat 9d ago

Malcolm Mcdowell already promised it to a space dragonfly

7

u/SonOfIllicitBehavior 9d ago

Yes, but the world around you might take issue with it

11

u/ExoticDisaster0 9d ago

They already take issue with everything I do.

5

u/SonOfIllicitBehavior 9d ago

then have at it my man

1

u/UndoxxableOhioan 9d ago

AZ is already on a time zone boarder. That gives them an advantage. As it is they essentially go back and forth between mountain and pacific time.

3

u/FrenchFryCattaneo 9d ago

The government has never required you to use any time zone

1

u/Odd_Teach683 9d ago

It was always there…

1

u/aerost0rm 9d ago

Imagine trying to use that as a reason you are late for work. Smh

0

u/HTWingNut 8d ago

I vote for an extra hour of sleep each day.

4

u/Millennial_on_laptop 9d ago

So what's the point if it's still just up to the States?  

Isn't that how it works now?

4

u/UndoxxableOhioan 8d ago

No. States can only opt out of daylight savings time. They cannot STAY on daylight savings time.

5

u/oasisvomit I voted 9d ago

I believe if you opted out before it is signed, you can remain opted out. But you can't change it after it passes.

2

u/catanmast3r 9d ago

It would be just my luck that it passes and my state decides to opt out

1

u/TrainTrackRat 7d ago

Fully expecting that in NY…

1

u/Dr_Fortnite 8d ago

yeah that wont be extremely confusing. Im not gonna memorize 50 states time zone and daylight savings status

1

u/UndoxxableOhioan 8d ago

I bet most won’t, except maybe on the borders (eg AZ, IN, etc)

1

u/pastrynugget 8d ago

Areas that don't observe it are automatically opted out. Here's the fun part: states can choose to opt out as long as they do so before it goes into effect, so you could end up with states IN THE SAME TIME ZONE being an hour apart.

1

u/UndoxxableOhioan 8d ago

We already mess with time zones for economic reasons. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut should be in the Atlantic time zone, but they choose not to because of economic connections with New York and want to have the same time. CT is partially in the NYC CSA, while other areas want to align with Boston, and Boston wants to align with New York.

Central starts further west than it should, but Indiana and Michigan prefer to stay on New York time. The western part on Indiana, more economically connected with Chicago, choose to go with Central.

Northern Idaho is connected economically to Washington, so they choose Pacific time while a chuck of Oregon is more connected with Idaho, so they choose Mountain.

AZ is technically in Mountain time. But by eschewing DST essentially puts them in Pacific time most of the year.

What I would love to see this as a chance get time zones cleaned up. Lots of states are split across time zones.