House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time

donohoe 18 points 7 comments July 15, 2026
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y-curious

Any other devs thinking about how much pain DST caused them and how we now have to go through the equal pain of unfixing DST? For the record, I support this legislation, but here’s to another week of messing with time.

WalterGR

49 comments so far on this submission from 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913246

SaucyWrong

This is the wrong call, we should have gone for permanent standard time instead of this. Permanent DST was tried already in the 1970s and everyone in my parents’ generation tells me it was a complete and total disaster

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