Popular Science
Would Permanent Daylight Savings Time Really Improve Our Quality of Life?
Whether you’re pro-Daylight Savings or pro-Standard Time, the science is clear: Switching *between* the two every year is terrible for human health. So why haven’t we stuck with one system all year? The answer is both scientific AND political. Hosted by Annie Colbert Reported by Tom Hawking Edited by Avital Oehler Written and Produced by…
@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?
@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
@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.