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Stop switching. Stay on Summer Time.

Why stay on summer time? Because this routes more available daylight to the evening, which most often (for the bulk of people) is used as personal time, family time, everything other than work and school.

We already give up so much to those institutions, I could not possibly support sacrificing another hour of daylight to them.

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Stop switching & stay in winter time!

My 2 cents worth...

Stop switching and split the difference. 1/2 to the summer and 1/2 to the winter.

I have advocated getting to root of the problem. That is having days in first place... Just get rid off the planet and so many problems are solved. We could make sensible second based calendar as we don't need to care about days, months or years anymore. Win, win, win I say...

I use morning for personal time. Works for me.

I don't understand why people need sunlight for after-work activities though? Unless your hobby is calibrating sun-dials what are you doing?

Because we want to be outside on the sun. And before work there is a.) dark anyway b.) time pressure to finish that activity for work/school.

I guess I don't get what activities people are doing that need the sun. Sports pitches for example have floodlights. When I run in the evening I carry a torch. Where I live a bit further north it's going to be dark unless you shift the day by like three hours. We manage to do things after work just fine.

Some sports aren't played in areas with big flood lights, and many people don't live near that kind of infrastructure at all. It's totally fine if you aren't interested in those activites, but it's a little weird to me that you seem unaware that they even exist and millions of people like to do them.

No one said "totally impossible to do anything".

We want to do things on the sun. We don't want to have to carry torch. We want to get what little vitamin D we can get from more then just pills.

It is cool to see outside without having to go where floodlights are. Taking walk and see around, for example.

> We want to do things on the sun.

Just seems a bit disproportionate to offset everyone else's lives by an hour so you can have a walk in the sun or whatever.

Most outdoors activities are safer and more pleasant when there is some sunlight (think: walking through a forest, hiking, swimming in a lake, sports, having a picnic, etc).

Um, pretty much every outdoor activity? Hiking, yard work, sports, and even just socializing outdoors are pretty dramatically affected by the sun going down.

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