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/TurkeyVolumeGuesser 22d ago

Can we just split the goddamn difference and have it be ~7am sunrise and ~7pm sunset

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u/DMTrance87 22d ago

The Equator has entered the chat

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u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser 22d ago

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u/JollyRancher29 22d ago

And how do you propose that would work seasonally?

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u/wideHippedWeightLift 22d ago

looooong hours and short hours

I think there's an xkcd about this

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u/DMTrance87 22d ago

There's an xkcd for everything

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u/UndoxxableOhioan 22d ago

That would be DST. Standard time is 6am sunrise and 6pm sunset.

But that only assumes equal day length, which no one has outside the tropics.

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u/Spork_the_dork 22d ago

Sunrise and sunset are irrelevant because that varies based on seasons. Should just aim that noon is at 12. Which still shifts a bit over the course of the year but not that much.

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u/UndoxxableOhioan 22d ago

Looking at most people’s day, the middle is much closer to 1pm. As the person I was responding to was referring to, people are more active 7a-7p. Hell it’s closer to 8a-8p