The House of Representatives voted 308-117 on Tuesday to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would lock the clocks into daylight saving time year-round and kill the twice-a-year time change for good. Florida Republican Vern Buchanan, who introduced the bill, has argued for years that flipping the clocks disrupts everyone's schedule for no real reason, and President Trump has already said he'd sign it if it lands on his desk.
The news broke that the House passed legislation locking in permanent Daylight Saving Time nationwide.
The bill still has to survive the Senate, which passed its own version back in 2022 only to watch it die in the House, so nothing is changing at your local Walgreens clock display just yet. But that didn't stop Barstool from turning it into a full-blown office debate the second it hit the timeline, because nothing gets people going quite like arguing about sunlight.
I HATE this. 815am sunrise. Are you INSANE! Might as well live in Alaska.
Chief's issue is simple: permanent DST means winter sunrises creeping toward 8:15am, which he's comparing to living in Alaska. It's the classic anti-permanent-DST argument — sure, you get an extra hour of light after work in December, but you're getting dressed, making coffee, and driving your kids to school in pitch black to pay for it.
Cons sat down on camera to explain why he thinks permanent DST is a bad idea.
Cons has actually been building this case in stages all day. He opened by mocking anyone excited for an 8:30am sunrise, then pivoted to a longer, more philosophical breakdown: yes, dark winter afternoons can be depressing, but there's something cozy about being inside watching football while it's dark outside — and by his logic, a sunrise that doesn't show up until 8:30am might be even more depressing to sit through since most adults are already up and moving by 5 or 6.
listen as one of the biggest critics around, I don't have a problem with DST and ST. In the fall and winter, yes it gets dark early. Yes, it can be depressing. But there is something amazing about being inside somewhere warm watching football or a Christmas movie while it's dark outside. I think it would be miserable to not see the sun come up until 830a. The adults are all awake by 5a or 6a so you could argue it would be depressing waiting for the sun to wake up. In the spring and summer, we get those late sunsets and fun summer nights that we appreciate so much because of the early dark nights in the winter Pros and cons but overall I think we should leave things as they are because there is nothing wrong with it we tried this once before in the 70s and it was so horrible it got reversed let's stick with what works
It's a rare Barstool debate where nobody's really wrong. Standard time gives you sunlight in the morning and darkness by dinner in the winter; permanent DST flips that, trading a bright evening for a sunrise that shows up after most people are already at their desks. Congress has apparently decided evenings win. Cons, notably, isn't even fully against the change despite the debate he's stirring up — he says he doesn't have a real problem with either system, which somehow makes his back-and-forth with Chief even funnier, since he's arguing both sides while Chief is just mad about Alaska sunrises.
For now this is all hypothetical office chatter, since the Sunshine Protection Act still needs a Senate vote and a presidential signature before anyone's clock actually stops moving. But if it does clear those last hurdles, expect this exact argument — dark mornings versus dark evenings — to run on a loop in every group chat in America next winter.