I take it O-uKnow lives in the Southern Hemisphere!
It's the opposite here at 50-odd degrees North, with sunrise somewhere near 6am and becoming progressively earlier, and the evenings drawing out.
What can anyone do about it?, Well, nowt of course. We can't change astronomical processes!
So-called "Daylight Saving" is really a bit of con, certainly in name. It merely adjusts our working day to take more advantage of the available daylight. It "saves" nothing, because the actual lengths of light and dark are not changed. All we do is put our artificial (and natural "body"?) clocks out of phase with the natural noon and midnight set by the Earth's rotation and observer's longitude.
It was introduced in Britain in WW2, and some supposedly believed it was to make it more difficult for the Luftwaffe's bombing raids. Obviously it could not do so: the bombers still had sufficient darkness hours even if the two countries' clocks indicated different times. I think the real reason for "British Summer Time" was to help farmers.