House passes Sunshine Protection Act to make DST permanent
Wow. The House has *passed* the Trump-backed plan for year-round daylight saving time. States would be able to opt out. The bill heads to the Senate. This is a huge development for those of us on the sunshine policy beat. with the great @annalissroy.bsky.social
Dan Diamond25Some important context here - Congress fifty years ago passed a similar plan for permanent daylight saving time. It backfired; voters got angry and it was swiftly repealed - The politics of this issue are weird and more about geography than party. Tom Cotton, a Trump ally, has vowed to stop it.
Joe Sabol13Standard time is better aligned with your circadian cycles: bright light in the morning to wake, dim light in the evening for better sleep. Do your own research, a simple search reveals 20 reports in favor of standard time, none for the so-called daylight saving time www.ama-assn.org/public-healt...
Kelly Laudenslager9Noooooo... I live in central Kentucky and the sun already comes up around 8 am in the winter. I don't want to send my kids to school an hour before sunrise.
R.A.Smith5Its stupid, was stupid in the past, still stupid now.
Artesian Mystic4It’s been tried already. Was wildly unpopular. www.popsci.com/science/perm...
Tammaye4Daylight Savings Time is stupid. Of course our mad king supports it.
whitney pastorek6“States would be able to opt out” - folks can’t handle current time zones, how on earth will they figure this shit out?
Nick Kodama5New discourse topic just dropped
Laura Lorson4Ugh. Of course they did.
Joshua Smith3👎 I, for one, would not like the sun to rise at *8:27 a.m.* in the dead of winter here in DC.
Spooks2I hope this shit doesn't pass daylight savings time is the worst
Zach Lipton2Good, but if states can opt out, that seems like a recipe for widespread confusion As for Trump’s support, if you have a horse loose in a hospital, it’s probably going to accidentally do something useful like kill some ants or scare away some especially annoying patients or allow year round DST
The House is scheduled to consider & vote on H.R. 139, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, this week. The Rules Committee met on July 13 to prepare the rule for the bill's consideration. This bill seeks to make DST permanent year-round, which would end the twice-annual practice of changing clocks.
Ryan Moore 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦12Picking one and sticking with it is certainly more intelligent. I'd rather it were permanent standard time, but this would be better than the current nonsense.
Mad Ophelia11Sigh. I hope one day people realize the real issue is the outdated 8 hour workday taking up too much of our lives. A 6 hour work day would give us back an extra hour on both ends of the day. For now I'll settle for people hating it almost immediately and undoing it, like last time they tried it.
jnowak.bsky.social11Yuck. I live far enough north that this would mean 9 am sunrises in the winter. Standardize on Standard Time, for biology’s sake!
Crone629People do not look at the science, do they? Staying on DST is not the the answer.
AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲9And it passed the House
An Average Joe7What is the point? Why not just natural time? If you'll lose whatever supposed benefit DST gives you if you go year around with it, you lose the exact same amount of benefit if you go with noon being when the sun is highest in the sky. Is it a religious thing? Or are they all just that stupid?
The US House of Representatives has voted to make daylight saving time permanent (308-117). The Sunshine Protection Act now goes to the Senate for consideration.
delaney14"sunshine protection act" has to be the worst fucking name for this
Requiem For a Nintendo Pro 036The most important issue in the United States, now! How did they know?
DJ Uncle Fishbits2JUST SO WE STOP MESSING WITH DOG FEEDING TIMES. LET'S GOOOooooo
Alexander Dent1where it will likely die...
Crissa1Ohh, the most useless Congress might get something done.
nxptvne | selmo truther | NashPHIL19Hey soooo people can’t afford to live
Rick8please finally make this happen. I don’t care if it’s standard or dst, just pick one
Miranda ~*Randi*~ Doerfler3(1) Stupid name (2) WHY?? No one wants this!!
🖖3I wonder which way Miss ladybugs would have voted on this
Salt is ready for HLWT! 1/2 of Selmo (real 🩷) |-/2this sounds about as real as Boaty McBoatface did back in the day except WE HAVE REAL FUCKING ISSUES IN THIS COUNTRY AND THE HOUSE IS FOCUSED ON DST. Every politician in the house is a fucking JOKE.
ize 🍀2people are dying, but yeah, sure
Bird Stays Up2They Do This EVERY Year And It Changed Yet.
The House voted to end Americans’ practice of switching their clocks twice per year, a win for President Donald Trump, who has called for permanent daylight saving time over the objections of medical groups and lawmakers who represent Midwestern states.
bunnyjenkins.bsky.social5Except this time shift is not the one we want. This is the one business owners want.
jeri5.bsky.social1Golf courses…trump’s only reason for getting involved. Gosh, isn’t it great having a president who focuses on the really important things that affect us all in our everyday lives?!🙄
Zeroisanumber2It'd be good for my carriers, who'd have an extra hour of daylight to deliver mail in the winter. But sending kids out to catch the bus in pitch blackness seems dumb.
Sean Gaffney2Well, in the winter I'll be walking under a dangerous underpass in the dark to get to work. Bye, I guess.
⏰ House PASSES Trump-backed plan to end switching clocks twice a year, 308-117 w/bipartisan support. If passed by Senate (TBD), will make daylight saving time permanent in most of the country. @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thirstyscholar4Wrong way. Standard time should be permanent.
Twilo's Version3This is so fucking stupid. Yet again, a problem we solved decades ago comes back because morons refuse to acknowledge history or use their brains
zou2According to this new plan, the sun will rise at 8:15 in NYC and 9:05 in northern Minnesota.
DMin2I think this is better for most people but in rural areas many kids still ride the bus. So, thousands of kids will be standing at the end of a half mile long driveway in the pitch black waiting on the bus. Humans, bears and snakes are all a threat in the country.
Phil Yabut1We already tried this in 1974. It started out popular, then crashed and burned when kids started dying while waiting for buses in the dark. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
I like it but we're about to find out how people feel about dark winters
Andrew Mason6Gonna be swell for those kids lining up for their school buses in the darkness in the winter months
Clean Observer5Once again: we did this in the 70s and everybody hated it. This gets mentioned all the time and somehow piles of dummies just pretend we didn’t learn something.
punished kroenke man3Just pick one, man, I don’t care which. It’s all made up anyway
Gord Smith 🇨🇦👉🏼💪🏼2Hey, they can do something useful!
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation Monday, July 13, that could make daylight saving time a thing of the past, possibly ending the twice-yearly ritual of the hours "springing forward" and "falling back." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Damifinoe2They want to make it permanent.
Maryland Poppa1The time change is dumb. Half people want it one way, the other half want the other. Good to end it. Despite there being a million other more important things, we can't expect this govt to actually achieve more than 1 in a million
🏴☠️Øracle 671⚓️🌻1I'm thinking this is the least important of our concerns in the list of concerns. Cripes. Jesus, take the wheel.
A nurse named Ed1Please god yes! The cost to business -imagine you’re a hospital with people working 24/7 and you have to make sure people get paid for an hour that disappears from the clock. Plus imagine acutely ill people’s medical records like vital signs.
movienation.bsky.social1This headline and cutline are dead wrong. It's Standard Time they're voting to end. Daylight Savings year round. Idiotic.
