House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent | CNN Politics
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The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.

The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.

It will now head to the Senate for approval before going to the president for his signature — though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear.

  • SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de
    6·
    6 days ago

    What’s so special about the sun being at its highest point at noon? It doesn’t correspond to most people’s mid of the day these days anyway (that would need them to get up at 4 am and sleep at 8 pm); according to https://neurolaunch.com/when-do-most-people-go-to-sleep/ “Most adults go to sleep somewhere between 10:00 PM and midnight” meaning the middle of their day is between 2 and 4 pm (assuming 8 hours of sleep).

    • randompasta@lemmy.today
      33·
      6 days ago

      It’s literally the definition. Cowboys can no longer have gun fights at high noon because if no longer exists.

      My biggest problem with this change is not ending the biannual time change. But moving to perminent DST. All that is doing is moving the goal post. Eventually everyone will get used to it and start moving store hours to matches what the sun is actually doing. We’ll adjust to the sun, not the other way around.