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I'm just going to copy the rationale directly out of Wikipedia:
Personally I don't understand why it's still a thing. Does anyone actually need it? As far as I can tell it exists solely by inertia and certain groups wanting everyone else to adjust around them rather than vice versa.
Industrialized societies generally follow a clock-based schedule for daily activities that does not change throughout the course of the year. The time of day that individuals begin and end work or school, and the coordination of mass transit, for example, usually remain constant year-round. In contrast, an agrarian society's daily routines for work and personal conduct are more likely governed by the length of daylight hours and solar time, which change seasonally (in most places the day's daylight is longer in summer and shorter in winter), due to the Earth's axial tilt. This effect is greater as one moves away from the equator.
By synchronously resetting all clocks in a region to be one hour ahead of Standard Time (one hour "fast"), individuals who follow such a year-round schedule will wake an hour earlier than they would have otherwise; they will begin and complete daily work routines an hour earlier, and they will have an extra hour of daylight after their workday activities. However they will have one less hour of daylight at the start of each day, making the policy less practical during winter.
While the times of sunrise and sunset change at roughly equal rates as the seasons change, proponents of Daylight Saving Time argue that most people prefer a greater increase in daylight hours after the typical "nine-to-five" workday. Supporters have also argued that DST decreases energy consumption by reducing the need for lighting and heating, but the actual effect on overall energy use is heavily disputed. (See: Dispute over benefits and drawbacks section)
The manipulation of time at higher latitudes (for example Iceland, Nunavut or Alaska) has little impact on daily life, because the length of day and night changes more extremely throughout the seasons (in comparison to other latitudes), and thus sunrise and sunset times are significantly out of sync with standard working hours regardless of manipulations of the clock. DST is also of little use for locations near the equator, because these regions see only a small variation in daylight throughout the year.
Personally I don't understand why it's still a thing. Does anyone actually need it? As far as I can tell it exists solely by inertia and certain groups wanting everyone else to adjust around them rather than vice versa.
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Otherwise though, it means it gets dark at 4pm.
Daylight savings is the fucking way and the light, man.
A whole extra hour of afternoon in summertime? Fucks yeah, complainers can suck it up like I do and get on with barbequeing and partying in the evenings.
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I'm fine sticking with the later daylight hours. Just stay on one.
It's one of those things we do because we've been doing it for a while.
I have no problem with it having been implemented in the first place. With less data to draw on, the reasons put forward to make it happen made sufficient sense at the time. Now that we can actually see that it's useless, it's time for it to go.
Preferrably the one that gives me more daylight during winter. I'm tired of all the draugr roaming the streets at night here in Scandinavia.
It doesn't seem like an issue that affects me much at all, so I find it hard to be passionate either way
Praise the Sun, bitches.
Having a night watch when it happens is the worst.
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My stupid state didn't observe this shit for the longest time, then we were all like "hey, let's join the stupid-train" in 2006.
It'd be less of a pain in the dick if I didn't have a kid. Kids don't like going to sleep when it looks like it's noon outside, apparently.
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Guess their time was up.
It's pretty stupid. A holdover from our pathetic dirt-scrambling past.
fuck that noise
Ben Franklin was wrong, and sleepy french whores were right.
We can keep the hour back, it's ok.
We live on a sphere that wobbles in circles around the sun. Let's just accept that and abolish daylight savings.
I missed the shot from the time machine.
Steal a precious hour from my life and give it back later in the year? Throw it on the trash heap, I say.
Among the concerns cited:
Does not measurably cut down on energy usage
Causes a measurable increase in health problems, e.g. The rate of people dying of heart attacks in the few weeks after the time switch jumps by a statistically significant amount every year, "night people"have documented difficulty adjusting to the switch leading to reduced work output, it increases the number of tardy students in classrooms for a period of time after the switch, and kids have a particular difficulty adjusting.
There's no longer any upside to this, and there is a lot of downside.
Maybe I should write my rep about it here, send letters to the paper, but then Iowa is full of old farmers.
So I'm not saying that you're a class traitor and a tool of the bourgeoise if you support DST but...