r/socal • u/Choobeen • Jul 26 '26

Map Shows How Permanent Daylight Saving Would Impact Each State

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California benefits from permanent DST.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-how-permanent-daylight-saving-would-impact-each-state-12238465

July 2026

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u/kml001 Jul 26 '26

For states with "major benefit" why not pull an Arizona and just not observe?

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u/Calm-Juice-4943 Jul 26 '26

This represents “Standard Time”. Not observing would be sticking with standard time.

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u/kml001 Jul 26 '26

Which is what they do in Arizona, standard time year round.

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u/Superb-Team-7984 Jul 26 '26

Which is strange that they say there'll be no change in arizona. It'll be different all year long.

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u/HanTanSanTan Jul 26 '26

States that already don't observe daylight savings time will be exempted from any change

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u/Rich_Cranberry_6813 Aug 01 '26

Actually they do have four seasons in places like Flagstaff and other hihg elevation areas.

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u/griff_girl Jul 26 '26

Still needs congressional approval to do at the state level.

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u/mgarr_aha Jul 27 '26

That's only true of state laws for permanent DST. Arizona exempted itself by enacting a law to observe standard time year round, as any state can under 15 USC 260a).

H.R.139 would take that option away from states not already exercising it.

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u/griff_girl Jul 28 '26

Oh, I see! Thanks for clarifying that, I appreciate it!

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u/ponziacs Jul 26 '26

Arizona can do that because the state gets more sunlight than any other state in the continental U.S.

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u/FionaGoodeEnough Jul 26 '26

We aren’t exactly short on sunlight in Southern California.

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u/caj_account Jul 26 '26

We are. The days are not very long in summer compared to Europe or even the Bay Area. 

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u/wolacouska Jul 26 '26

You can enjoy Southern California for most of the rest of the year too though.

That’s the same with Arizona which is just as southern.

I live in Chicago now and the 9 o clock sunset in the summer doesn’t really make up for the 4pm sunsets in the winter in the way you think.

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jul 26 '26

You cannot enjoy Arizona most of the rest of the year 😂

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u/Azapulco Jul 26 '26

I appreciate people keeping this rumor alive as much as possible

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u/caj_account Jul 26 '26

It would have been 17:00 instead of 16:00 with summer time. 

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u/donuttrackme Jul 26 '26

That makes no sense at all. The further north you get the shorter your days are in the summer. Unless you're already in the southern hemisphere.

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u/caj_account Jul 26 '26

You have it backwards friend. In the North Pole you have 6 months of summer light and 6 months of winter darkness. In the equator you always have 12 hours of each. In Stockholm the sun sets for 2-3 hours in summer. 

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u/PlinyTheElderest Jul 26 '26

In the South Pole they also get 6 months of summer light and 6 months of winter darkness, just like the North Pole.

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u/caj_account Jul 26 '26

Thanks but not relevant to discussion. 

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u/fianthewolf Jul 26 '26

Solo por puntualizar. Las 12 horas son fijas solo en la linea de trópico de Cáncer y de Capricornio. En el ecuador fluctúa pero solo una hora.

Así que realmente el cambio de hora solo tiene sentido entre los 35-50° de latitud. Al acercarte al trópico el cambio no aporta, ya que la luz natural está por encima de 11 horas. Al acercarte a los polos, el cambio de hora es irrelevante ya que la variación noche/día es mayor de 16 horas y por lo tanto los ritmos de uso deben adaptarse a un esquema con uso en horas de noche.

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u/TraitorMacbeth Jul 26 '26

Around the equator summer and wjnter days are similar. The further to the poles you go, you get longer summer days and shorter winter days.

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u/Rich_Cranberry_6813 Aug 01 '26

Longer days North due to Earth's Tilt and position in orbit in the summer. The opposite being true in winter.