House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/house-vote-daylight-savings-time

18•pseudolus•1h ago

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lioeters•51m ago

Curious how this affects date/time algorithms and software libraries, particularly those that do not have a way to sync with an external authoritative source of time. I guess they all need to be updated to account for this change?

toyg•37m ago

They need to be updated anyway, and always have been: somewhere in the world, someone changes time rules basically every year, or even every few months. All current OSes already have support for stating "locale X will not use daylight savings / will always use daylight saving, starting from day yyyymmdd at hhmm" through simple updates.

cpburns2009•37m ago

An updated tz database.

bombcar•31m ago

Or you set your timezone location to one that’s false, but matches what is now true (like Arizona, for example).

jauco•35m ago

Yes there’s databases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database that track this and that are included in libraries that do the arithmetics. It’s why those libraries are often relatively bulky.

ClassAndBurn•34m ago

I finally built my side project and the government finally does something to make it pointless! Yay?

https://www.daylightsmearings.com/

MilnerRoute•29m ago

It still needs to pass the Senate.

al_borland•7m ago

The Senate passed in a few years ago[0]... then the House did nothing. Now the House passes is and we have to hope the Senate does something again. If only Congress could get on the same page and do these things at the same time.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...

hobonation•29m ago

Cool. We did this before 1974 and immediately went back, and I never understood why. I guess I'll find out.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-the-...

gepeake•28m ago

> But detractors say it could have economic consequences, particularly for farmers who would have to wrestle with later sunrises.

I genuinely don't understand the "farmer's like DST" argument. Farmer's schedules are dictated by the sun not the time and the sun changes continuously year round. If the argument is about commercial coordination that follows the same logic of being difficult regardless given constantly shifting sunlight, at least without DST there's year-round consistency by the other businesses.

scheme271•10m ago

It also varies depending on where in a time zone you are. The eastern and western sides of a timezone could see sunrise and sunset at significantly different times.

al_borland•9m ago

DST was never about farmers, it was to conserve energy for the war effort. Farmers also aren't punching a clock at an office. They can start and end work when they want, based on the weather and daylight that suits the work.

jmclnx•27m ago

>though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear

Now they need to get it through the Senate. Maybe we'll see something useful passed during this admin :)

botacode•16m ago

This will save a lot of lives! Hope it passes.

The shift is a relic of an older economy and damages folks' lives through worse mental health and driving outcomes [0].

[0]: https://www.coveragecat.com/blog/daylight-saving-time-car-in...

marssaxman•12m ago

I'm glad we're agreed that changing the clocks twice a year is a bad idea, but I don't understand why we should abandon Daylight Savings Time by adopting it permanently. What's so wrong with Standard Time?

Oh, well: whether we put the clocks back or leave them permanently off-by-one, either is better than changing them around over and over.

Jtsummers•5m ago

The reason for permanent daylight savings (versus permanent standard) is to provide for later sunsets in the winter. By clock time, the sun would be rising later (after 8am in many places) but setting later as well giving people some late afternoon or evening sun. Which is better is ultimately subjective, you get short days in the winter regardless when you live far enough north.

The late sunrise can be more dangerous with a lot more people traveling in the dark (especially if there's mixed vehicle, bike, and pedestrian traffic, like around schools). So that's also something to consider, and a drawback to this particular choice.

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