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> It's better to have longer darkness after the masses are RESTED (in the morning), opposed to when they're TIRED (in the evening) Speak for yourself! I am definitely sleepier in the morning, and definitely feel less safe driving in the morning. I prefer summer time, because I almost never wake up before dawn, but for most people, I think DST is actually the best. You generally want people to wake up at around sunrise. It means we could adjust office hours to sunrise, say, work starts 1h30 after sunrise and ends 10h after sunrise. Nice, but it would be a mess. Instead we are using clocks, but the problem becomes that during winter, you will wake up and even sometimes start to work at night, something that most people dislike, and during the summer, morning daylight is lost to sleep. So, how to fix the problem?
DST of course. It is an approximation, but it means that as a whole, our lives more closely match the sun cycles. So that's my opinion, keep the DST. It is added complexity compared to no DST, but we have been doing that for decades, we know how to deal with it. And while many people want to abolish DST, about half want winter time, the other half want summer time, there is no consensus, so we might as well keep DST. |