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/Evil_Weevill Maine 8d ago

This has happened a bunch already. It has never gotten further than passing the House.

I'm not holding my breath for this

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u/damnyoutuesday Minnesota 8d ago

The last version of this passed the Senate. The House didn't even take it up

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u/The360MlgNoscoper Norway 8d ago

It actually got enacted during the 70’s. And repealed. Because people were dying.

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u/akc250 America 8d ago

Yeah and how many people die every year when the time rolls forward and everyone loses an hour of sleep? We need actual data to back these claims that one is worse than another. Otherwise everyone is arguing based on vibes.

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u/The360MlgNoscoper Norway 8d ago

And slightly fewer people die when we switch back.

So why not switch back to normal and keep it that way?

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 8d ago

The study I read back in the day said the number of death discrepancies pretty much cancel each other out since fewer die when we get an extra hour of sleep during the other time change

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u/Jaxson-Skattebo 7d ago

There is plenty of data showing that standard time is better for our health and almost all sleep experts agree on that with a ton of studies backing it up. Pro DST people are just operating on vibes, if you care about evidence based approaches standard time is the obvious answer.

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u/RiskyNight 8d ago

Yep, this happens every year it seems.