[wazoox]

People vote for "summer time" because they, d'oh, prefer summer. But summer time in winter is atrocious. And there are many people getting up early, they're (mostly) called "the poor", those generally brown people who clean up your office hours before you come in, prepare food early so that you can eat at noon, collect trash, etc. I know, they don't vote and don't really count, who cares if they can't see the daylight all winter long?

Yeah, that's a cynical take on the class orientation of HN... (I don't get up at 5 and never ever reach the office before 10:30 myself).

[jedberg]

I don't think you're right that it's mostly poor people who get up early, but even if it is, they would benefit even more from permanent summer time. There would still be sunlight after they get off work, and if they started their shift at 5am, then they get a whole lot of sunlight after work, an hour more than they would otherwise.