It’s just an artificial shift. There’s still the same amount of hours in the day.
If they didn’t change it, in the middle of the summer the sun would rise at about 4 am and set about 8 pm (+/- 8 hours from midday). Since there’s a lot more people up and about at 8 pm than 4 am, we arbitrarily move everything “ahead” 1 hour in the summer, so sunrise is 5 am and sunset 9 pm.
Double-daylight savings time has been tried too, but it near-impossible to get kids to sleep when it’s still light out at 11 pm!
It’s just an artificial shift. There’s still the same amount of hours in the day.
It's an artifical shift, as you say, but it actually does make a tangible difference in people's lives, in the "real world" of how we do things in life.
Your workday still has to be done, and if you don't have as much daylight time left after you get off work, eat and then think about doing something else -- you won't be doing something else outside.
BUT, when you get off work, eat, settle down a bit and then think about doing something and it's "Daylight Saving Time" -- you find you've got a considerable amount of "daylight time" left -- so you're more likely to do things and enjoy yourself outdoors, than you would if it was already dark by the time you think about doing it.
That's the kind of "tangible difference" it makes in people's lives -- and especially those who have to "work for a living" -- doncha know... LOL...
I had a co-worker who grew up in England who'd tell stories of it still be daylight during the summer at 10PM.In fact,I was in London in June one year and it did get dark quite late...and I think I recall the sun coming up fairly early too.
I have a friend in Sweden, he’s about an hour or two drive from the Arctic Circle. In the summer, the sun rises like a 2 AM and sets at 10 PM or so but you still get “White Nights” where it does not get dark completly. Of course in the winter, it is opposite.