# Daylight Savings Time: Why is the US congress split on this matter **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-why-is-the-us-congress-split-on-this-matter/974456 "2022-11-06T04:36:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-why-is-the-us-congress-split-on-this-matter/974456/11 "2022-11-06T05:17:09Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > It seems universally popular to end. My impression is that some people want it to end (i.e. permanent Standard Time), some people want to go to permanent DST, some people want to keep it the way it is now, and some people want some other alternative. And, as @flurb noted, what people think they want doesn’t necessarily coincide with what people would actually be happy with once they got it. The issue has been discussed before: > [@Does today's unanimous Senate approval of a permanent DST bill mean it's a fait accompli?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-todays-unanimous-senate-approval-of-a-permanent-dst-bill-mean-its-a-fait-accompli/961145): > > [Note to mods: I really tried to think of the correct forum for this post, but I really couldn’t decide. So I placed it here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you can think of a better forum.] Today the Senate unanimously [approved](https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22979745/senate-daylight-saving-time-vote-good) a bill that would make DST permanent starting next year. It seems to me that if the Senate approved it unanimously, then the House is likewise sure to approve it by a wide margin at least, but even if it passes the House by a single vote, that would be enough since a… > [@Daylight saving time - again. Let's go to back to "God's time"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-again-lets-go-to-back-to-gods-time/937707): > > Daylight savings time is coming up and I expect to hear all the whining (whinging for our British friends) about having to change clocks, how it causes more accidents in the weeks following, and worst of all - the people who question the whole reason, they just won’t to understand that sunrise changes through the year. My state legislature is proposing going onto daylight saving time year around - which never passes because “We can’t have children going to school in the dark in the winter.” To… One thing that was pointed out in those threads is that people have different experiences depending on what latitude they live at. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-why-is-the-us-congress-split-on-this-matter/974456)._