I’m convinced that the introduction of Daylight Saving has made the majority of the world ignorant to the fact that you get longer days in the summer because of the Earth’s rotation around the sun and not because of moving the clock.

So instead of just doing the sensible thing like staying on standard time all year and ending the clock changing madness, everyone goes to die on the hill of daylight saving time.

In even the most southern tip of my country the difference between winter daylight and summet daylight is about 5 hours. There is no way people are ignorant to this. The reason we hold on to it is the cost of changing. Thats pretty much it. Ironically though it also costs an economy quite a lot to keep too. The switch is counter productive economically speaking

It’s all sorted now

Why pay to fix tomorrow's problem? Hasn't that been humanity's motto for some time?

The benefit of daylight savings time (shifting the clock forward an hour during summer) is that work/school start closer to the earlier sunrise you get in summer, which also means you get more daylight from the time work/school ends until sunset to do outdoor activities.

Or you could, you know, just start things at a different time

Or we could just shift school/work start times to permanently be later since most humans don’t function well as early as society demands us to because some rich old white guys hundreds of years ago decided we have to be up as early as possible for “reasons.”

One earth, one clock. How hard is that? Seems to work for the military. Time zones make no sense.

I just do what I'm told.

Work and school can start whenever we want them to start. That's not a problem that requires changing the clock.

Abolish daylight saving time. It’s silly 🙃

We'll, I would rather stay on daylight saving time permanently. Most people would rather have more time in the sun in the evening.

...but no time is actually added to the day with DST

The shift that is happening is permanent daylight savings time, not permanent standard time. Yes, we could achieve the same thing by starting everything an hour earlier.

I think you are right about ignorance being a big player, and I’m sure there will be bickering as soon as the shift is made permanent, arguing that the other time should have been the one that was permanent.

At least we won’t have to listen to an entire population whine about 1 hour of jet lag twice a year.

I have doubts that permanent daylight saving can stick. The US tried and failed at it once before. When people realize it’s still pitch dark at the time their kids are walking to school in the winter they tend to change their minds about daylight saving being as good as they thought it would be.

For “money”

FTFY

Having the clock shift is a lot easier than letting every school / work place decide when they want to start

That's obvious. Do people really believe more time is added? I would rather go to work in the dark and have that hour of daylight on the back end.

There are plenty of people who believe the world is flat. It doesn't surprise me to hear/read people talking about DST in a way that makes it seem like they really believe that they get more time. Maybe they thought that the movie Out of Time was a documentary. 🤷🏽

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