My Year With the New Clock
A personal simulator that shows exactly how a permanent daylight saving time (or permanent standard time) switch would change your daily life – sunrise/sunset times, school bus darkness, evening sunlight, commute daylight – using your actual home address and family schedule.
Curious US adults and parents trying to decide whether permanent DST would actually help or hurt their family
- Address-specific sunrise/sunset calendar comparing current vs. permanent DST vs. permanent standard time
- Family schedule overlay (school drop-off, work commute, kids' activities) highlighting darker/sunnier moments
- Shareable side-by-side infographic for arguing with relatives on social media
- Browser extension that swaps the user's clock on every page so they can 'try the change' for a day
Sunshine Protection Act is back in the news with Senate debate; people want concrete, personal data instead of pundit arguments from DC.
Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 (S.29 / H.R.139) is actively in Congress and CNN launched a major dedicated interactive on this exact topic in July 2026, confirming real audience interest; however interest is news-cycle driven (twice-yearly DST spikes).H.R. 139: Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 - GovTrack.us ↗How would permanent Daylight Saving Time affect you? - CNN ↗
Direct free competitors already exist from major publishers and indie builders: CNN's city-level interactive, CBC's 550-location table, Observable's 'DST Gripe Assistant', and ZmanShift (112 US cities); the 'personal address + family schedule' angle is only a modest differentiator.How would permanent Daylight Saving Time affect you? - CNN ↗Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool - Observable ↗Zman Shift - How Permanent Daylight Saving Time Would Change Zmanim ↗
CNN, CBC, and Observable all give equivalent tools away for free; this is a one-time curiosity checked during news spikes, making recurring subscription revenue very hard to sustain.How would permanent Daylight Saving Time affect you? - CNN ↗Chasing daylight - CBC.ca ↗
Demand is tied to a recurring legislative cycle (SPA re-introduced nearly every Congress); if the bill ever passes the question disappears, and off-cycle traffic collapses to near-zero between DST news events.Sunshine Protection Act - Wikipedia ↗
Trivial to build: sunrise/sunset are computed from lat/long via standard solar geometry, address geocoding is a commodity API, and a personal 'schedule overlay' is a simple calendar config; no infra, no data, no compliance burden.Sunrise Sunset Calculator - Daylight Hours & Times ↗