it seems it is just to say that now the sun is going down at a much later hour than winter. But its pretty much the same thing. I dont mind much about it, it doesnt change the fact i have a job to do and hours to get paid.
I prefer Standard Time and to stop changing during the year. My state has already voted to stay on DST all year. I'll hate that. We can't actually implement it until Congress approves. It's been over a year and no approval. YAY!!!! I think it is ridiculous that the East and West coasts could be four hours different. That is hard for some businesses. The sunshine state get plenty of sun during the summer with EST. I am really hoping that when we go back in the fall (which I hope will happen) we will never return to DST. What I've heard out of DC is that they like the idea of staying on one time but lean toward Standard.....YES! I'm hoping.
I ignore it. In the winter I go to bed at 10:00 at night and get up at 4:00 in the morning and in the summer I go to bed at 11:00 at night and get up at 5:00 in the morning.
I'd rather stay on a single time, which in my case (in SW. England) would be Greenwich Mean Time.
It's hard to know what is actually being saved, by whom, especially in a country of sufficiently high latitude to have marked differences in day/night hours from South to North coasts.
GMT (or its Continental drift-proofed Universal Co-ordinated Time version*) is the de facto standard, and so-called "Daylight Saving Time" (called "British Summer Time" here) is no longer particularly needed.
Suggest it though and you elicit cries of horror and of "will result in killing some-number of children" and other specious nonsense dreamt up by safety-campaigners who find malleable statistics, children and the elderly, are useful tools.
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* The GMT / 0º 0' 0" meridian is marked by a bronze bar in the grounds of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, East of London. I understand in the couple of centuries or so since it was installed, the entire NW Eurasian Plate, on which the British Isles rests, has drifted roughly ESE by a distance significant in modern metrology. From what I could find, the mean drift rate, which won't be a steady crawl, is about 2mm/yr; so the Royal Observatory's line could be anything up to about 0.2 metres (about 8") further to the East, in only one century! I don't know the actual error, which is probably less.