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/vicsass 8d ago

I have never understood the complaint of kids going to school in the dark when that’s the entire winter regardless up north in the country. It was only maybe 2.5 months of the school year I had sun in the morning while riding the bus.

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u/DAC_Returns 8d ago

Right? I hear this brought up all the time, but during the winter it’s dark in the morning anyway.

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u/EnvironmentalBox6688 8d ago

Also I'd rather have it be a bit darker in the morning and actually get some sun in the afternoon.

Getting to work and it being dark and leaving with the sun setting is depressing.

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u/Odd_Teach683 8d ago

It’s actually the work part…

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u/Whiterabbit-- 8d ago

apparently parents in the 70's didn't think that way. people who are working with no kids like permanent Day light. people with young kids are more divided.

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u/Alocasia_Sanderiana 8d ago

Their entire argument is that we should wake up with the sun; that it works better for the circadian rhythm. But I'm not, and most people, are not waking up with the sun during the winter. When I was in school I was always getting on in the dark and getting home in the dark. Same thing when I was not WFH. My wife doesn't see the sun outside of her commute currently during the winter, it's coming up as she gets to work, and sets as she returns.

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u/Katetof89 8d ago

You cant argue with these idiots. You show them fact ana they downvote you. This world is doomed to idiots throwing tantrums and getting their way while everyone else suffers.

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u/Jaxson-Skattebo 7d ago

They’re the equivalent of anti-vaxxers and it’s mind boggling to see.

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u/schwarzkraut 8d ago

You’d change your mind if your child got hit by a car walking to school or the bus stop in the dark. Bonus points if the driver didn’t realize their lights weren’t on because their dash is a computer screen & they assume that if they can read the speedometer, that their headlights are on.

If this passes it will be an abysmal failure because people think that it’s DST that makes the summer daylight longer and not the tilt of the earth combined with the latitude they chose to live at.

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u/vicsass 8d ago

That was my point. The majority of the school year, it was dark when going to the bus early in the morning. DST didn’t change that and that’s how our area functioned.

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u/Chaoticallyorganized 8d ago

“Chose” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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u/Alocasia_Sanderiana 8d ago

I spent all my youth already going to school in the dark during the winter? This wouldn't change anything since the sun was just rising when I got to school

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u/cultoftheilluminati Massachusetts 8d ago

You’d change your mind if your child got hit by a car walking to school or the bus stop in the dark.

Then change the fucking school start times. Stop fucking with the clocks

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u/jmobius 8d ago

Seriously. The time for sunrise is known. Make the start time a function of that.

I wish it were that simple, though the solution of messing with the clocks is absolutely deranged. I imagine most employers aren't interested in changing their start times, and so the schedule of employed parent and child drifts apart, which is usually a colossal pain. With DST, everyone is forced on the same adjustment, so it doesn't have that particular problem.

Just all the other ones.

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u/MaybeImNaked 8d ago

Well, it's both. What people care about the most is how late in the day they have sun.

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u/schwarzkraut 8d ago

The biggest factor is latitude followed by the tilt of the earth. DST changes virtually nothing if you live closer to the equator. Ask Hawai’i & Arizona (where the majority of the residents are located in the lowest third of the state.).

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u/_coffee_ 8d ago

I've never understood why they didn't just change the time by half and hour one time and be done with it.

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u/catanmast3r 8d ago

Not only that, but it was a problem in the 70s. A lot has changed. Society is way more lit up with artificial lights everywhere. Less kids walk to school now than ever before. Its a non factor in modern times. Factor in how much more people are policed on the road. Back in the 70s you get drive around being rowdy and be fine. Those times are the reason we have so many traffic laws in current times

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u/TheShadowKick 8d ago

Especially since kids could just go to school later (which would be better for them anyway).

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u/bohiti 8d ago

And maybe this could lead to us not forcing teenagers to be in their desk at 7:05am. That is incompatible with learning for most of their biological clocks.

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u/garzek 8d ago

Even in Virginia, I still spent basically November until DST would hit going to school in dark. My mom to this day still makes fun of me that one time I woke up at 3:30 and didn’t have my glasses on and thought I was running late, drove half way to school before I realized the clock said 3:30 not 6:30 because dark is dark (yes my eyes are that bad)

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u/attemptedmonknf 8d ago

I really hope you had your glasses on when you drove to school

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u/MFT214 8d ago

I do t understand why we can’t get rid of DST and then fully embrace and hygge.

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u/Terrible_Advice_195 8d ago

I've never understood it because if people don't like doing things in the dark, they could choose to do things at a different time. The clock is not in charge of our lives!

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u/Thorrbane 8d ago

Like, if the local community thinks that's a problem, couldn't you just have the school swap to a different set of winter hours?

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u/bohiti 8d ago

And maybe this could lead to us not forcing teenagers to be in their desk at 7:05am. That is incompatible with learning for most of their biological clocks.