The past summer was a good example, you can't spend any time outside before the sun goes down because it's just too hot in direct sunlight. If anything we should move the clock back an hour in summer, not an hour forward. It doesn't start being nice to be outside until after dusk.
At the cost of having the sun out at 3:30 AM? I'm not sure I like that idea.
Either way, Spain solves it by having siesta (at the peak). We don't have that in France or Belgium or The Netherlands.
Because when it is very warm, the best thing to do is not waste any energy and the best way to do that is rest/sleep instead of work.
You can keep the sun out of your house a lot easier than keeping it out of all of the outside world.
>State Sen. Greg Steube, who sponsored the bill, said that the idea of year-round daylight time has enormous support among Floridians.
"I've heard from mayors across the state that it's going to save them money because they don't have to light their softball fields at night," Steube said, according to the Miami Herald. "I can't tell you how many people have come up to me who have said even my high school-age kid, it's hard to get him up in the morning when we fall back the clocks."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/08/591925587...
Live in a non-DST timezone, and nothings bad.
Live in a timezone observing DST and you get the time shift twice a year, without fail.
I'd say it's more like saying - "Travelling is terrible because I hate jet lag".
I agree that it's not a very good argument. I'd say a better one that it's a weaker version of is: DST kills people:
https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-is-dead...
Except the sun goes down a LOT earlier in Florida which is much closer to the equator than northern Europe. In summer the sun doesn't go down until after 10PM here. If you want to have a BBQ and not burn alive while doing it, you have to start at 22:30 at the earliest. That's just not a realistic time if you have to work the next day.
edit: Also, in Florida the days get shorter during the summer, over here they get longer.
I'm not sure what do you mean, but it doesn't seem right.
Either the days in Florida get longer during the summer relative to the winter, as they do in Europe, or the days in Florida get shorter as the summer advances, as they do in Europe (the longest day everywhere in the Northern hemisphere is around June 21).
When you are in the real tropics, that adds a surprising twist to the experience of seasons, including disorientation when your shadow points towards the opposite pole for part of the year!
Ah, I was just thinking about the heat, but that's a good point.
>edit: Also, in Florida the days get shorter during the summer, over here they get longer.
No they don't. Like other places in the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice is the longest day of the year in Florida - and the winter solstice is the shortest.
However whether the better solution is to just wake up earlier or officially shift the time, I do not know. That question is entirely up to what's easier for society to organise.
It's probably true for most places in Europe except southern Italy. Remember that the farther north you go the more daylight you get.