[DesertRhino]

I like summer evenings with sun until 9. It’s great.
And I like it getting dark early in the winter and wrapping up my day and lighting a fire.

Best of both worlds.

[fwdude]

Then don’t be a slave to a clock. The day doesn’t change, only your slavish perception.

[Carl Vehse]

Nowadays adjusting the clock twice a year is a compromised solution that provides an extra hour of daylight in the evening for families to enjoy being outdoors more during the summer period, but returning to Standard Time in the winter, when there are fewer daylight hours, so that morning commuters and school children will have some daylight hours in the morning.

DST is not needed as much the closer one gets to the equator; Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa do not use DST.

DST becomes meaningless the closer you get to the poles. However, Alaska, with its two time zones, still uses DST, even though parts of the state have daylight all day during some of the summer and no daylight in some of the winter.

If you want to blame something for the changing length of daylight hours during the year, which results in the usefulness of daylight saving time, blame the 23 degrees tilt of the Earth’s axis as it orbits the Sun. Of course, without that 23 degrees tilt, life on Earth might not be possible.

The hour change should be only a minor inconvenience, especilly for people who regularly fly to (or from) different time zones. Of course, those living near the western edge of a time zone already get a little later sunset in the evening (and a little later sunrise in the morning) compared to those near the eastern edge of the same time zone.

[Sicon]

"I like summer evenings with sun until 9. It’s great.
And I like it getting dark early in the winter and wrapping up my day and lighting a fire.
Best of both worlds."

^This.

Really can't understand why people get so worked up over it. People who travel to a different time zone for more than a couple of days do this all the time.