As science, including astronomy, and natural outdoor Earth oriented, daylight savings time is annoyingly unbalancing the way our brains sense the seasonal change of daylight versus night hours. Something we absorb everyday week after week that I suspect also subtly affects the vast numbers of complex biochemical feedback systems that has evolved in mammals over hundreds of millions of years. So if I had a vote, it would be STANDARD TIME.
I realize that kind of visceral experience facet of the question has no interest with most urban people given artificial lighting that have long left the need to pay much day to day attention to whatever is outside their doors. And I also realize some will prefer permanent DST simply because they want to use those hours after work playing golf etc.
What I wrote on the earlier current thread below. As long as the corporations for the sake of more profits have control of politicians, unlikely to happen or worse they will get their wish with permanent DST. Ironically, if and when that happens, companies etc might then gradually begin changing their operating hours back an hour because employees will complain against having to getting up in the dark so.
Why do we have to have daylight savings time?
So after their 8-f m-f jobs, executives and upper middle class people can play golf and Wall Street retail corporation bean counters can squeeze out even more money from we citizens. One needs to understand, the same result would happen if companies, schools, and government offices where people work simply seasonally shifted their hours during the year so people would go to work earlier and and get off earlier.
But companies, schools, and government offices are not going to shift their working hours so Walter can play golf or Sally after work will have an easier time driving in daylight to a shopping mall. So instead of pressuring companies, schools, and government offices to change shop and office hours, corporation bean counters pressure their politicians and news media to change the subject with bullsh$$ into how the rest of us during summer are going to enjoy more daylight hours after work.
