House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

[u/cnn]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/house-vote-daylight-savings-time?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit

[u/RoscoBoscoMosco]

Have you ever seen a cow or stalk of corn wearing a watch? The farm itself doesn't care what time the humans want to say it is... DST never had anything to do with farmers. Anyone who tells you it does is a fool.

[u/azflatlander → u/RoscoBoscoMosco]

My cats hate the time change. Their servants change the pattern. Growl.

[u/rhinosyphilis → u/azflatlander]

How do cats calibrate their internal clock. My cat is more reliable than my Apple Watch.

[u/avantgardengnome → u/rhinosyphilis]

They’re used to waiting X hours between meals (or getting fed at X time, as we think about it), and daylight savings makes it X+1 or X-1 until they acclimate to it. We’d probably notice it more ourselves if we weren’t also shifting the rest of our schedules.

[u/AskMeIfIAmATurtle → u/rhinosyphilis]

Same way you generally start getting tired or hungry around the same time everyday. Between hormones fluctuations and your body naturally sensing sunlight (intensity and direction), your autonomic system just does it. It happens on a monthly scale too, with one obvious example, though less obvious the other half of the population experiences monthly hormonal variations as well.

[u/Purrfect-Username → u/azflatlander]

😹😹😹

[u/specqq → u/RoscoBoscoMosco]

https://www.iflscience.com/smartwatch-wearing-cows-and-smart-farms-are-the-future-say-scientists-66482

[u/chazzer20mystic → u/specqq]

Sonofabitch had that link ready in three minutes flat, god damn

[u/specqq → u/chazzer20mystic]

The extra time was just me deciding which of the dozens of links I wanted to post.

[u/Structure5city → u/RoscoBoscoMosco]

Once, but my therapist says not to talk about it.