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Having a decent amount of daylight time after work and rush hour end makes a huge difference. Should daylight savings be taken away, it will have a outsized negative impact on my life.

It's not realistic for the entire society to change from "9 to 5" to "8 to 4". The only hope is for daylight savings time to persist.

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How does it have a negative impact if you have more usable hours in the evening ?

Summer evenings don't get comfortable until after the sun goes down, before that it's usually too hot to spend outside in the sun. We should move the clock an hour in the opposite direction, so the hot parts of the day are during working hours (when you're in a nice airconditioned office) and the cooler parts are in the evening, when you want to sit in the garden and have a beer and a BBQ.

No way -- I'm not nocturnal, and the heat of the hours just before sundown is perfectly tolerable. Damn the tyranny of the electric light bulb! Give me sunlight!

You realize that your assertions are heavily influenced by the climate of where you live, right? While what you said makes a lot of sense for somewhere like Texas or Arizona, it is completely wrong for, say, the majority of Canada.

I live in the Netherlands, our summers are probably closer to Canada than Texas and it’s still way too hot to be outside un direct sunlight during summers.

That is highly personal though; I am from NL and I have never experienced what you say. Too hot in NL is not a thing. I moved to Spain and we even usually (outside august) find it too cold there. Each his own but for a country with such crap summers like NL I find this a weird one; most people I know there take summer afternoons off to hang outside on terasses.

That and working, walking etc in the hot sun gives me energy personally; energy I missed in our Dutch winters.

What's wrong with 8 to 4? I've been doing it for decades. Sometimes I do 6 to 14 and so on. If projects require, I'll do 10 to 18, etc. What's that big fuss about that?

Some of us don't have complete freedom to set our own schedules.

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