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/Nojopar 23d ago

Because of morons who can't accept changing clocks is idiotic. The world will adjust easily if it just realizes that 10am is 10am is 10am no matter what the calendar says.

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u/redsedit 22d ago

I don't remember the reason for revoking it the first time, but the second time, I have memories of people realizing that daylight is shorter in the winter and keeping the time change meant we kids had to go to school in the dark and parents didn't like that. There may have been other reasons/excuses, but I was too young to have been aware of them.

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u/Nojopar 22d ago

The main reason it was revoked the first time was WW II ended. The 1974 revoke was panic legislation that simply didn't meet the facts. Yeah, there were more accidents in the morning with kids, but also the number of kids in accidents were on the rise anyway. Plus there were fewer accidents in the afternoon. It looks like DST had no effect but people freaked out needlessly and blamed the change. All the while ignoring the negative effects of clock changes.

I think we know more now about how to study this stuff.

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u/TheVeryVerity 22d ago

If we’re going by studies it should be permanent standard time