DST is just a hack to make the time roughly correspond to when the sun rises, instead of when noon is. It solves the problem that people want their day to start when the sun is up, not before, and not after. The problems it creates are mostly for programmers who can't be bothered to write good software. Well I say tough cookies, you'll have to handle the edge cases so the rest of us have comfortable mornings.
> The problems it creates are mostly for programmers who can't be bothered to write good software
Myopic and ill informed.
> A 2017 study in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics estimated that "the transition into DST caused over 30 deaths at a social cost of $275 million annually", primarily by increasing sleep deprivation.[128]
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time, Effects on Health section. That section mentions many more negative effects of DST.
> An LSE study found that DST transition increases people's feeling of being rushed for time, and the number of hours spent on leisure decreases by roughly 10 minutes following the transition and more specifically the spring transition into DST decreases life satisfaction by around 1.44 per cent.
I think this summarizes it. The negative effects are concentrated around the transition. The positive effects are spread throughout the year. You lose 1.44% life satisfaction for a few days, and gain immeasurably more over the course of the year.
It's a pretty imperfect hack, since in many parts of the continental US the sun still rises at 5:00 AM even with DST, and you still get up in darkness in the winter. It was dark when I woke up today, for example.
I don’t give a crap about the day starting when the sun comes up. I just want to go home at 5PM in winter and it not be dark already. There are plenty of studies about how this increases depression in the winter. The fact we keep persisting with this perverse nonsense infuriates me.
You presumably also want to go to work and have it not still be dark. You can't have it both ways.
I’d much rather go to work in the dark and have sunlight after work. The only people that it’s better for are children who would have to wait for the school bus outside in the dark, though in my experience growing up school started early enough that we were still waiting in the dark anyway.
No? Why would I care? I'm going to work/school anyway. I want light during my free time in the evenings.
No I don't care if it is dark when I go to work. I'm fresh then and I can't garden and go outside at work like I can at 5pm at home.