Why? Businesses can't switch operating hours during summer or events like sports and concerts can be schedulled earlier or later?
It's a bogus argument either way.
Now I am in the blessed position of working from home again, I can choose when I get up. What I choose is this:
- for 26 weeks of the year (broadly from spring equinox to autumn equinox) I get up at 7am (which would be 6am in the absence of DST)
- for 6 weeks of the year (broadly centred on the winter solstice) I get up at 7:45am
- it takes 10 weeks for me to switch from getting up at 7am to getting up at 7:45am: I get up 2 minutes later every day for 5 weeks, and 1 minute later every day for another 5 weeks (and the clocks go back during this)
- it takes me 10 weeks to switch the other way: I get up 1 minute early every day for 5 weeks, then 2 minutes earlier every day for another 5 weeks
I do this to maximise the amount of daylight I get during the winter, without having to get up in the dark.
The point of me telling you all this is: the hard part is not getting up at a different time every day for 10 weeks. The hard part is synchronising with people who are essentially living in a different time zone.
This is why I don't do this when I work in an office, even just one day a week: I can change when I get up by a minute or two every day, but the trains won't change when they run by the same amount. That 9am meeting I need to be in the office for is still going to be at 9am, and the guy who controls when it starts won't agree to move it.
When I work in an office, I can't choose my timezone. Neither can you. Neither can anyone else.
(The dates I target aren't really the equinoxes/solstices. What I actually care about is the latest sunrise, which is a week and a half after the winter solstice, and shift everything accordingly.)
And this is the whole point - DST gives those whose work schedules aren't flexible an hour of extra usable daylight at the time of year when it is available and pleasant to be outside.
It’s like one of those old tricks for scrolling raster graphics. If you want to move the screen over five pixels, you can copy everything in VRAM over five bytes, or you can add five to the base address register and everything moves automatically on the next frame.
>“Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is OK with me!” Mr. Trump posted on social media in March 2019.
I presume by "ending Daylight Saving Time" he meant making DST permanent and ending the process of changing, which seems to be what everyone agrees is the right thing to do.