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@Nmethyltransferase
April 29, 2026 at 12:29 pm
Permanent Daylight Savings Time _and_ offer free bright light therapy lamps to everyone who wants them.
@DarkHorseSki
April 29, 2026 at 12:30 pm
While I would rather just normal time…(Michigan is already on the far west side of the Eastern Time Zone), Just not changing the clocks 2x a year would be best regardless if it is standard or savings time.
@PaulsPubAndBrew
April 29, 2026 at 12:33 pm
I prefer permanent DST, but I would settle for anything permanent. Just stop the changing.
@billschlafly4107
April 29, 2026 at 12:35 pm
Our lives are no longer dependent on daylight so daylight savings is asinine. Split the difference and call it good. Or just leave it one way or the other.
@KaseyShan
April 29, 2026 at 12:40 pm
PNAS… **giggle**
@LoveIsABattlefield69
April 29, 2026 at 12:45 pm
Humanity has many dumb ideas which we continue to endure without reason and only out of habit.
@AnonymousFreakYT
April 29, 2026 at 12:52 pm
In my area, it’s because the federal government hasn’t made it legal.
Washington, Oregon, and California have all passed “permanent DST”, but current federal law forbids that. It only allows “permanent standard time”. (As Arizona has.) As soon as the federal government allows permanent DST, the US West Coast will then stay on DST.
@27retrodaze
April 29, 2026 at 12:55 pm
The worst part about dst is living with an insomniac… So now they get up at 6:30 in the morning when its really only 5:30… “But the clock says 6:30…” Ugh.
@DrunkenMalkavian
April 29, 2026 at 12:59 pm
5:49 PINGAS!
@LANBobYonson
April 29, 2026 at 1:03 pm
BC went forward forever
@MPS186282
April 29, 2026 at 1:09 pm
We need permanent standard time. That’s why it’s standard time. Permanent DST is just switching to a perpetually incorrect time zone.
@TheNaikan
April 29, 2026 at 3:43 pm
You would enjoy eating dinner in the dark year ’round?
@pecansmith
April 29, 2026 at 11:08 pm
@TheNaikan The clock isn’t responsible for anything but telling you what time it is. Schedules would be responsible for when someone is eating.
@tsartomato
April 29, 2026 at 1:25 pm
we cancelled watch swapping and the amount of discomfort has only lowered
@archerelms
April 29, 2026 at 5:21 pm
But did you switch to daylight saving time or standard time? That’s what the video is about
@tsartomato
April 30, 2026 at 1:13 am
@archerelms
no idea what that supposed to mean we are utc +3
@NovaCat13
April 29, 2026 at 1:42 pm
Daylight SAVING time. I’d think this channel would know that.
@LANBobYonson
April 29, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Also meanwhile china:
@Trey_v3.3
April 29, 2026 at 2:00 pm
There’s plenty of daylight in the summer already dontcha think? Just stay on standard, you know, the true time
@lucidmoses
April 29, 2026 at 2:57 pm
May I thought Permanent DST was a joke. Like flat earthers or anti vaxxers. Just stuff stupid people believe. I hate to break it to the politicians but pretending mid day is a different time doesn’t change reality and has zero benefit to humanity.
@TheAmazingBendini
April 29, 2026 at 3:05 pm
It would be great if society could agree to shift the start of school and work, but short of that let’s move to permanent DST already. When we do things is a social construct anyway, I don’t see why early birds (maybe 20% of the population including grade school kids), a significant portion of whom would trade that morning daylight for afternoon daylight anyway, should trump an hour of light in the afternoon when everyone can enjoy it and benefit from the better mood it creates. I’d like to see a more exhaustive review of the literature about the mood boost for the extra hour of light in the afternoon so we can make a more informed decision balancing that against making kids get up earlier
@lexfrancis5916
April 29, 2026 at 3:13 pm
Just leaving a comment here so there’s one more comment
@Ceelvain
April 29, 2026 at 6:41 pm
Permanent daylight saving… That seems totally useless. Wouldn’t it be less effort to just shift the time things happen instead of messing with the clocks?
Like people waking up at 7 instead of 8. Stores opening at 8 instead of 9, and so on.
@subseeker
April 29, 2026 at 7:17 pm
It’s MORONIC. Idiotism.
@romascesas8216
April 29, 2026 at 8:06 pm
DST is just absurd. All it does is force everyone to get up earlier and do everything an hour earlier… The day is not longer, there is no more daylight than is you were on standard time. Here is the best idea. You want to play more after work? Ask the boss to let you shift your work day by an hour.
And for us retired folks we wouldn’t have to change everything just to stay in sync with those that don’t seem to understand time.
@pecansmith
April 29, 2026 at 11:04 pm
You would be surprised how many people have no idea what time is or what clocks are for. Many people think that schedules are fixed and the time is malleable. Now we have a government mandate to wake up earlier imposed on the entire population.
@xkennyPLx
April 29, 2026 at 10:14 pm
I hate daylight saving with a passion. I don’t care if they keep it on permanently or remove it. It just needs to stop screwing up my already crappy sleep schedule twice a year for no reason.
@pecansmith
April 29, 2026 at 11:15 pm
Science indicates that the only thing worse than changing the clocks twice a year is staying on Daylight Saving Time (DST) year round. In terms of health outcomes, permanent Standard Time is superior to biannual switching or permanent DST. There is a consensus among major health organizations that back up this claim.
@xcreeperify
April 29, 2026 at 11:21 pm
only america can create such a stupid idea. oh wait… they have even dumber ideas
@robertkeller3835
April 30, 2026 at 12:07 am
DST is a testament to how stupid people do stupid things for reasons they dont understand. thank god i live in Arizona and dont have to deal with that stupidity
@wendelynmusic
April 30, 2026 at 1:44 am
The entire west coast voted to not change but we have had to wait for **** congress. that was before covid. BC was going to wait so the whole coast could change as one but I read an article recently that they may be going ahead with it now.
@tsartomato
April 30, 2026 at 2:24 am
trying to use science with the sample size of “me and my cat” is laughable. a normal study should involve tens of millions of people across the globe to breach at least 1%
humans literally just had two sleeps some years ago instead of one, but for a modern human it sounds insane
so did anyone paid for research into humans naturally having two sleeps and modern one long sleep being unnatural abomination of gaslight?
@tsartomato
April 30, 2026 at 2:26 am
also china literally has one time zone
so some people there live at “night hours” and some people live in “morning hours”
time is a construct of human perception an illusion created by BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
@macxgeek
April 30, 2026 at 5:47 am
My vote is for permanent Daylight Saving Time
@cggc9510
April 30, 2026 at 7:43 pm
I live and work in three different time zones across three different continents. Every 6 months, I spend 1 month spread across 3-5 time zones as different countries move into and out of daylight savings. Then in my home country, some states change and others don’t. So, I am a mess during those two months as everyone changes.
I hate, no despise, no loathe DST because everyone does it on their own time. Not to mention in one season, I am 14 hours ahead of NYC and in others I am 15 or 16 hours ahead.
Enough with the nonsense. Just get rid of it across the world. We live in a super connected world. We don’t need it any more.
@thanksfernuthin
May 1, 2026 at 11:13 am
It’s all dumb as fuck. It literally changes nothing. People that love telling others what to do intruding on everyone’s life just because they can.
@rolfathan
May 2, 2026 at 12:54 am
I desperately want year round Standard time.