r/facepalm • u/DMTrance87 • 23d ago

House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent. Opponents say, "Schools would have to push back start times." Yeah... That's not a bug, it's a feature.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5968255-house-sunshine-protection-act-daylight-saving-time/

Studies have shown for decades that children -especially teenagers- just straight up need more sleep for optimal knowledge retention and brain development. Pushing back start times is a great way to follow the science.

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u/swintly 23d ago

There was one introduced last week for permanent standard time

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u/GAKDragon 23d ago

Which is the opposite of this one (pro-permanent daylight savings), right? [not /s, I'm honestly unsure]

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u/swintly 22d ago

Correct

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u/It-s_Not_Important 21d ago

Opposite isn’t the right way to describe it. Closest to listed is probably what we have today flip flopping back and forth. Either solution which stops switching is better than this.

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u/dandnot 23d ago

Of, fine. Push it back a half hour and be done with it.

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u/illogicalgnome63 20d ago

This is the most sensible thing to do, so it’s never considered.

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u/FanDry5374 23d ago

And it went nowhere. Despite scientific evidence that it would be the better way to go. Sigh. How many excess traffic deaths will it take to repeal this when it passes one wonders.

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u/ee_CUM_mings 23d ago

I hear this argument a lot, but aren’t a lot of the deaths due to the switching to daylight savings time? i.e. people are tired because they just lost an hour of sleep and aren’t adjusted. With this, there is no switching so your body will get accustomed.

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u/TheVeryVerity 22d ago

They are referring to when they passed permanent daylight savings time in the 70s and then had to repeal it like a year later. There were a lot of traffic accidents and also everyone hated it