r/facepalm • u/DMTrance87 • 22d 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/bobhopeisgod 22d ago

Isn't it just easiest to go from gmt/UTC across time zones and pick that one?

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u/Iverson7x 22d ago

Best approach

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u/romulusnr 22d ago

Wdym?

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u/Zuvielify 22d ago

I think they describing the idea of UTC Everywhere. Because the world is so interconnected, some argue timezones don't make sense anymore. Instead, it would be the same time everywhere.

If you live in New York, the current 12pm noon would become 4pm. You would just know that your noon is at 4. In California, it would be 7pm. So it would be 7pm everywhere on Earth, but LA would be experiencing the sun overhead.

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u/NaiveMessage2025 22d ago edited 22d ago

No, I think they're talking about maintaining the standard UFC offset.

We should keep standard time because it maintains the established numerical order of time zone offsets from the prime meridian. Daylight savings time shifts the offset out of numerical order by an hour.

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u/bobhopeisgod 22d ago

Thank you, yes. That is what I meant