Subj : Re: Daylight Savings Time
To   : Blue White
From : Vk3jed
Date : Mon Feb 28 2022 15:54:00

-=> On 02-27-22 09:21, Blue White wrote to Orbitman <=-

 BW> You are not the only one here who feels that way.  Where I live, there
 BW> seem to be a lot of people who really don't realize that DST <> more
 BW> daylight. They seem to think that if DST were to go away that the total
 BW> amount of daylight would drop.

Sure the amount of daylight won't change.  The question is how _useful_ that
daylight is.  Changing the clock is one way to move more daylight hours to a
more "useful" evening hour, during the longer summer days.  It's not the only
way, we could simply alter our schedule year round to follow the sun, but that
seems harder for many people (and industries) than changing clocks to
approximate this.

For me, the biggest issue without DST would be the sun rising an hour earlier,
local time, which means I would wake up earlier, and I'm in an environment
where it's not so easy to convince others to wind down an hour earlier.  End
result is I'd lose an hour's sleep most nights (some nights, particularly in
March would be less affected, as the sun starts to rise later), compared to
having DST for that 6 months.


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