I mean, if it had a proven benefit for kids, schools could start at different hours depending on the seasons.
Companies can decide to start at 10 or 8 instead of 9, etc.
More light in the evening doesn’t seem to make sense to me as we are the ones deciding when is “evening”
I've also lived almost all my life in a "recreational paradise" state far from the coasts where its totally normal for there to be at least one, often many, "in-season" work hours vs "out-season" work hour thru the year. Much like agonizing over average temperatures is heard but isn't an issue, its not a problem for the millions who live around here.
If one of the behemoth decides to start working at 11am -> 9pm, a lot of contractors and related services will move to the same time tables.
This is a fairly big problem in modern life, as far as I can see.
Traditionally, I assume what happened was that you worked at your employer, and your wife went to the bank.
I fully agree with you, but in many people do not agree with your argument. Interestingly in my experience whether people agree with this is different depending on whether that person has a STEM/non-STEM study or job, STEM people tend to agree.
So in fact, it's much easier to change what the clocks say than it is to change either of these.
Yes.
> More light in the evening doesn’t seem to make sense to me as we are the ones deciding when is “evening”
Western society has pretty much embedded the idea that the day is centered around 16:00 (4PM) and "night" around 03:00~04:00.
Lights out being when the vast majority of people are asleep with no light when they're actually up is stupid.
Where I'm from, 4PM is late in the day, just a few hours from bedtime, and 4AM is nearly time to wake up.
There are at least 4 or 5 hours in difference between dinner time in western societies. From 6 PM in some Anglosaxon countries to 8/10 PM in Italy (North / South) to 10/11 in Spain.
But remember that they are in the wrong time zone, so they always get one extra hour of light in the evening and one less in morning. This could account for the one hour of difference with comparable latitudes in Italy.