Daylight Savings Time: useful or not?

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So I was thinking about DST... and how easily I adapt to setting the clock forward. I hear people around me complain about losing an hour, and having to adjust to the new time, but I don't have that anymore. And then I thought: 'So, what does DST do, really?' I mean, I guess I could understand the angle of people saving energy because they have more sunlight in the evening and turn on the lights an hour later. But then, why not just keep this time with a relatively late sundown, all year long. So that, in the countries beyond the Tropics of Cancer/Capricorn, the sun doesn't go down at, for example, 5 o' clock, but at 6 o' clock?

Anyone have opinions on the usefulness (or lack of) concerning DST?

Also, you could post whether or not you have problems adjusting to setting the clock backward/forward.

I sort of feel that DST isn't so important anymore. If you live in a city, chances are that you are not particularly affected by how light it is at a certain time. If you're a farmer or something, then you probably know all about how the daylight changes throughout the year, and so you don't really need the hand-holding.

Whereabouts in the world you are makes a difference, in particular your latitude. Every so often there is talk here in the UK of permanently moving the clocks 1 hour ahead of GMT to be in line with Europe. That's a great idea, if you want kids in Scotland going to school in the dark.

I really wish they would choose one time standard and leave it that way... so we aren't changing the clocks back and forth every spring and autumn.

It's as meaningless to me as time in general.

I like it

Yes it is useful if you grew up working on a farm man I do miss working on the farm at my old high school and in middle school.

Yeah, I don't see the point of daylight savings time. I'd rather it get dark later.