July 16, 2026 • 8 mins
We tackle the never-ending daylight saving time debate, and it turns out deciding whether to change the clocks isn't nearly as simple as it sounds.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning, Good morning. How was your right end today?
It was good. Did you almost get hit by another car? No, thankfully,
Did the jar pickles almost fall on your head?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
No concussions?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, okay, vanishes. This is the stuff that happens to Abby. Okay.
So there's a big debate going on. There's a big
debate going on about the time change. You know, we've
it's been in the news lately, right Gandhi about how
Congress moved it through.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Now, well, it's passed through the House. The house that
the Senate, I believe has to take it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay. So there is a debate here. Some people think, no,
they don't want they don't want it to change. They
want to us to move our clocks forward and backward.
You know, several times a year. Other people will say
not leave it alone, leave it the hell alone. And
then Neigh brings up a good point in the debate.
But it also depends on where you live on the continent. Yeah. Sure, yeah,
(00:54):
the farther east you are in your time zone, it's
going to get light earlier. But if you're in I
don't know, somewhere in western North Dakota, it might not
get light until ten thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Is it east west that makes a difference on North South?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I know, I know North South North South sun
rises North South is different too, correct, kind of it
gets light here first before Miami, but as far as
the time zone goes, that follows east to west time
zone thing.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Okay, So the latest sunrise in Florida would be around
like eight thirty. It was like eight twenty eight was
the latest that could possibly rise.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And the sun crosses the continent. There's some parts of
a western part of a time zone they're just going
to be very dark late. But my I don't know.
Keep it the way it is. I don't want to
don't change clocks. Don't change clocks. I don't want to
change a clock ever again, don't touch it. Okay. So
(01:49):
you don't want to leave it the way it is.
You just want to leave your clock the way it is.
I don't want because change it? Okay, Okay, So abby
in this pole? Can can we do? May we do
an Instagram poll Elvis Durant's show. Absolutely all right, I'm
ripping this off. Someone else is doing a pole. We'll
rip them. There's Off, there's Morning Brew, which it's our
favorite read every morning. They have a poll. Okay, and
(02:12):
here it is. Stand by for their poll. Let me
know if you're ready for their poll.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm ready anytime you're ready. I'm ready to hear about that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Tell me think, Oh, I hear it is? Okay, here's
their reader poll. Do you want permanent daylight saving time? Okay?
The first answer is yes, I want that later daylight
and no changing the clock. I want that later daylight
and no changing the clock. Or no, I don't want
the morning darkness and I'm willing to switch twice a year.
(02:41):
I wish it could be permanent standard time instead. Or
I don't care what they change as long as I
don't have to switch my clock. These are different things
you can different ways you can put this.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Makes it you remember all that I'm going to go
on the Morning Brew and can't we just wait?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I want to spring forward, Yes I want to fall behind.
Yes I want to stay this way?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How about or never spring or fall? Do you want
to change your clock in October? Yes? Or no? No? No? Right?
That means standard times daylight, permanent daylight.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I know?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Am I the only one that does not care. Yes,
you'll care about this so much?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, I care just because I need content for the show.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
To be honest, I would rather be lighter when we
get up in the morning, like but you know what
I mean, Like.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But at the time you wake up, it's dark anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, I know, but it's but it still gets a
little bit sometimes. I feel like when I'm driving in
it's still a little bit lighter, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So what do you want? How would you vote? So?
I guess you want to change.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I want to change the clock, right?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You want to keep it the way it is?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, well yes, if you say anything else, you're going
to confuse everything. She wants to fall back and fall.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Does she believe in a time change or not? That's it, right,
she wants permanent standard time.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You want to go back to standard time in the fall?
It's okay, Okay, this is really making me want to like,
I want to kick something. It has to be simple.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, Yes, I'll make it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Do you never want to change your clock? Or do
you want to change your clock? Me?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't want to change.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm not asking you personal right, right, right, this is
the question. Okay, do you want to change your clocks
or do you not want to change your clock? Okay,
then the time would be the time we're in right now. Okay,
see you're adding stuff. It's important. It's important because if
you want it to permanently read the time in winter,
(04:32):
that's a different story. It is funny how every time
we have a conversation about the time change, it's like,
wait a minute, this is worse Daniel's cat eating. Remember
that story we ate Daniel's cat.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You were talking about the cat waking up at a
different time when the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, he messes up my dog.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
If this bill passes, do we never change them again?
Or do we go back to where it was willing
change one more time? Okay, well I don't know. Can
now that game? It stays exactly where you are to Okay, okay, okay,
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm just trying to understand. Okay, can we take a
vote on how this can most easily be understood?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Right now? I have written down do you want to
change your clock? Do you not want to change your clock?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
OKAYO?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Does anyone actually change the clock anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah? I guess it's more. I have an oven at home.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Do you not want the clock. I'm just trying to
think of how I could complicate it more.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
We wait, we could write, do you want it to
get lighter earlier? Do you want it to get darker later?
That's changing effect, but that's what affects it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's too vague.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Can we also have an I don't care button?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't care, I don't care about I can do,
I can try, I'll put it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I'll put something there for the people.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Hold on a second, let's let's go to the peeps.
Let's go talk to Colleen. Hi, Colleen, Hi, I love Bank,
New Jersey. By the way, Oh me too.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's why you live there, so changing clocks. You enjoy
changing the clock. So why is that? Oh, it's like
so fun.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's a holiday you get twice a year. It changes
everything up. So if you're ever feeling stale in your life, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Like, oh wait, I gotta get up an hour earlier.
Now it's exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I'm a fan of fall back personally.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I like when it gets dark at four thirty.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know somethings wrong with me.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
No no, no, no, no no. That this is not a judgment.
That we're not judging.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I do like the fall back because we get that
extra hour sleep.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's very nice, exactly, But they also say that extra
hours sleep. They're thing that when you change the clocks,
it messes everyone up. All right, so you enjoy you
call it. You think it's a holiday, is what you said.
That's the way you're use It's a celebration, time to
celebrate the changing of the time.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Okay, yeah, all right, yes, does this still impact the
farmers or not?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Farmers don't care? Read about that? You say it? Well,
so I did, really I thought I read they do care.
It depends on it depends on where their farmers located.
Probably that. Okay, now you're agreeing with me, Probably that.
But the vast majority of farmers don't care. And they
did try this back in nineteen you were live Elvis,
nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Goodness, you see it on behalf of all farmers.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, they didn't stick with it. They got to October.
Are you are you speaking for the farmers? I'm speaking
for farmers. Okay? Seriously? All right, Colleen, So you're saying
your vote is keep it the way the system is currently.
You want to change that clock twice a year? Wheah?
I mean, like Nate said, they tried it once and
(07:36):
everyone of rebell, so let's just we keep doing this.
Let me clarify. In nineteen seventy four, they got to
October and they're like, oh, even this change is terrible.
We don't do change. Well they didn't. They didn't try it,
they didn't go through it. Okay, Well, Colleen, thank you,
thank you, your vote has been tabulated, and thanks for listening. Yes, Nate,
(07:58):
do you remember when we moved horoscopes, right, we used
to do them. It's here's it's the example, six' ten
we used to do. Them we moved them to six twenty.
Five there was furer and uproar for a, month and
then everybody got used to. It we got to just
do the same thing with these. CLOCKS i don't want
to live in a world with. FURER i can stomach
(08:19):
some out all, right, right well, okay so let me
know when that poll is.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Up, Okay i'll go get that up.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Now in the time we've talked about, it you could
have put it up five really, Probably so how do
you personally? FEEL i don't want.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
To change the.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
CLOCKS I i do not like it when it gets
a target FOUR, pm that's just really. Okay this is
this is not a this is not a run For
congress or. Anything this is voted. On, okay thank, you all,
right thank, You, okay thank, you thank You, abby, everyone
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning, Good morning. How was your right end today?
It was good. Did you almost get hit by another car? No, thankfully,
Did the jar pickles almost fall on your head?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
No concussions?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, okay, vanishes. This is the stuff that happens to Abby. Okay.
So there's a big debate going on. There's a big
debate going on about the time change. You know, we've
it's been in the news lately, right Gandhi about how
Congress moved it through.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Now, well, it's passed through the House. The house that
the Senate, I believe has to take it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay. So there is a debate here. Some people think, no,
they don't want they don't want it to change. They
want to us to move our clocks forward and backward.
You know, several times a year. Other people will say
not leave it alone, leave it the hell alone. And
then Neigh brings up a good point in the debate.
But it also depends on where you live on the continent. Yeah. Sure, yeah,
(00:54):
the farther east you are in your time zone, it's
going to get light earlier. But if you're in I
don't know, somewhere in western North Dakota, it might not
get light until ten thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Is it east west that makes a difference on North South?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I know, I know North South North South sun
rises North South is different too, correct, kind of it
gets light here first before Miami, but as far as
the time zone goes, that follows east to west time
zone thing.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Okay, So the latest sunrise in Florida would be around
like eight thirty. It was like eight twenty eight was
the latest that could possibly rise.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And the sun crosses the continent. There's some parts of
a western part of a time zone they're just going
to be very dark late. But my I don't know.
Keep it the way it is. I don't want to
don't change clocks. Don't change clocks. I don't want to
change a clock ever again, don't touch it. Okay. So
(01:49):
you don't want to leave it the way it is.
You just want to leave your clock the way it is.
I don't want because change it? Okay, Okay, So abby
in this pole? Can can we do? May we do
an Instagram poll Elvis Durant's show. Absolutely all right, I'm
ripping this off. Someone else is doing a pole. We'll
rip them. There's Off, there's Morning Brew, which it's our
favorite read every morning. They have a poll. Okay, and
(02:12):
here it is. Stand by for their poll. Let me
know if you're ready for their poll.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm ready anytime you're ready. I'm ready to hear about that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Tell me think, Oh, I hear it is? Okay, here's
their reader poll. Do you want permanent daylight saving time? Okay?
The first answer is yes, I want that later daylight
and no changing the clock. I want that later daylight
and no changing the clock. Or no, I don't want
the morning darkness and I'm willing to switch twice a year.
(02:41):
I wish it could be permanent standard time instead. Or
I don't care what they change as long as I
don't have to switch my clock. These are different things
you can different ways you can put this.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Makes it you remember all that I'm going to go
on the Morning Brew and can't we just wait?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I want to spring forward, Yes I want to fall behind.
Yes I want to stay this way?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How about or never spring or fall? Do you want
to change your clock in October? Yes? Or no? No? No? Right?
That means standard times daylight, permanent daylight.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I know?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Am I the only one that does not care. Yes,
you'll care about this so much?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, I care just because I need content for the show.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
To be honest, I would rather be lighter when we
get up in the morning, like but you know what
I mean, Like.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But at the time you wake up, it's dark anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, I know, but it's but it still gets a
little bit sometimes. I feel like when I'm driving in
it's still a little bit lighter, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So what do you want? How would you vote? So?
I guess you want to change.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I want to change the clock, right?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You want to keep it the way it is?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, well yes, if you say anything else, you're going
to confuse everything. She wants to fall back and fall.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Does she believe in a time change or not? That's it, right,
she wants permanent standard time.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You want to go back to standard time in the fall?
It's okay, Okay, this is really making me want to like,
I want to kick something. It has to be simple.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, Yes, I'll make it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Do you never want to change your clock? Or do
you want to change your clock? Me?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't want to change.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm not asking you personal right, right, right, this is
the question. Okay, do you want to change your clocks
or do you not want to change your clock? Okay,
then the time would be the time we're in right now. Okay,
see you're adding stuff. It's important. It's important because if
you want it to permanently read the time in winter,
(04:32):
that's a different story. It is funny how every time
we have a conversation about the time change, it's like,
wait a minute, this is worse Daniel's cat eating. Remember
that story we ate Daniel's cat.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You were talking about the cat waking up at a
different time when the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, he messes up my dog.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
If this bill passes, do we never change them again?
Or do we go back to where it was willing
change one more time? Okay, well I don't know. Can
now that game? It stays exactly where you are to Okay, okay, okay,
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm just trying to understand. Okay, can we take a
vote on how this can most easily be understood?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Right now? I have written down do you want to
change your clock? Do you not want to change your clock?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
OKAYO?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Does anyone actually change the clock anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah? I guess it's more. I have an oven at home.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Do you not want the clock. I'm just trying to
think of how I could complicate it more.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
We wait, we could write, do you want it to
get lighter earlier? Do you want it to get darker later?
That's changing effect, but that's what affects it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's too vague.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Can we also have an I don't care button?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't care, I don't care about I can do,
I can try, I'll put it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I'll put something there for the people.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Hold on a second, let's let's go to the peeps.
Let's go talk to Colleen. Hi, Colleen, Hi, I love Bank,
New Jersey. By the way, Oh me too.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's why you live there, so changing clocks. You enjoy
changing the clock. So why is that? Oh, it's like
so fun.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's a holiday you get twice a year. It changes
everything up. So if you're ever feeling stale in your life, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Like, oh wait, I gotta get up an hour earlier.
Now it's exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I'm a fan of fall back personally.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I like when it gets dark at four thirty.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know somethings wrong with me.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
No no, no, no, no no. That this is not a judgment.
That we're not judging.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I do like the fall back because we get that
extra hour sleep.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's very nice, exactly, But they also say that extra
hours sleep. They're thing that when you change the clocks,
it messes everyone up. All right, so you enjoy you
call it. You think it's a holiday, is what you said.
That's the way you're use It's a celebration, time to
celebrate the changing of the time.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Okay, yeah, all right, yes, does this still impact the
farmers or not?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Farmers don't care? Read about that? You say it? Well,
so I did, really I thought I read they do care.
It depends on it depends on where their farmers located.
Probably that. Okay, now you're agreeing with me, Probably that.
But the vast majority of farmers don't care. And they
did try this back in nineteen you were live Elvis,
nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Goodness, you see it on behalf of all farmers.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, they didn't stick with it. They got to October.
Are you are you speaking for the farmers? I'm speaking
for farmers. Okay? Seriously? All right, Colleen, So you're saying
your vote is keep it the way the system is currently.
You want to change that clock twice a year? Wheah?
I mean, like Nate said, they tried it once and
(07:36):
everyone of rebell, so let's just we keep doing this.
Let me clarify. In nineteen seventy four, they got to
October and they're like, oh, even this change is terrible.
We don't do change. Well they didn't. They didn't try it,
they didn't go through it. Okay, Well, Colleen, thank you,
thank you, your vote has been tabulated, and thanks for listening. Yes, Nate,
(07:58):
do you remember when we moved horoscopes, right, we used
to do them. It's here's it's the example, six' ten
we used to do. Them we moved them to six twenty.
Five there was furer and uproar for a, month and
then everybody got used to. It we got to just
do the same thing with these. CLOCKS i don't want
to live in a world with. FURER i can stomach
(08:19):
some out all, right, right well, okay so let me
know when that poll is.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Up, Okay i'll go get that up.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Now in the time we've talked about, it you could
have put it up five really, Probably so how do
you personally? FEEL i don't want.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
To change the.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
CLOCKS I i do not like it when it gets
a target FOUR, pm that's just really. Okay this is
this is not a this is not a run For
congress or. Anything this is voted. On, okay thank, you all,
right thank, You, okay thank, you thank You, abby, everyone
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