[zozbot234]

The point of that 'switching back and forth' between standard time and DST is to let the clock approximate a constant time for dawn, which in turn should lead to the most efficient use of daylight. Permanent DST just ensures very dark mornings around the Winter Solstice period - December and January especially, Nov and Feb to a lesser extent - which in turn means more stress (since it's a lot harder to wake up with no natural light) and lots of car accidents as people commute to work. It's a pretty bad idea all around.

[teruakohatu]

> since it's a lot harder to wake up with no natural light

In much of the world, and presumably some parts of the USA, people wake up in the dark just fine. Yet everyone in the USA has to deal with daylight savings time.

It's fall where I am, we are still on daylight savings for another few weeks, and I woke up just fine in the dark at 7:30am this morning.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

But standard time in the winter means darkness by 4:30 PM around the winter solstice period, which in turn means lots of car accidents as people commute to work. It's a pretty bad idea all around, right?

[ProfessorLayton]

Shifting the time 2x a year is a bad idea all around and has measurable negative health impacts [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302868/

[Apocryphon]

We have artificial lighting now and the older method just means more car accidents as people commute to home after work.

[zozbot234]

Artificial lighting is less effective than natural light - which is why many people use special high-intensity lights to counter SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) in mid-winter. You could argue that shifting that daylight towards the mid-to-late afternoon is a preferable trade-off, but it's not a foolproof argument.