boy are you so wrong. Do you know the economic and social impact of just moving daylight savings time up further into april has had on this country? I think the figures were something like a 400 billion dollar economic gain. Why? Because people go out after work and feel like they can do more before dark. What do they do>? SPEND MONEY! You know what they arent doing? Sitting on their ass watching TV. Thus not having their minds turned to mush by stupid hollywood sitcomes and spending more time with their families.
If you do an analysis of neilson ratings after daylight savings time I think you would change your mind. I wish in the west we would go 2 hours back in the winter.
And I thought the only benefit was that Joe Sixpak could have an extra hour to throw the ball at his rugrat before dangerous, evil darkness descends, thereby ending any chance of fun in the summer. 400 billion dollars? Would we get a tax rebate for that if we inconvenience ourselves and embrace DST?
I have often wondered what the reason was for this, and assumed someone was making a lot of money off of it.