Who benefits? The recreatational industry.
"And the Tourist Industry! Not being heavy into paying for fun, I hadn’t thought about them."
They are usually the ones promoting the extension of DST. Actually, this is probably not a bad idea anyway. Besides, such extensions usually bring out a bunch of kooks in protest anyway. Usually good for few laughs.
My favorite kook argument is that we are 'messin with God's time'. Not to many people realize that our present system of time keeping, ie, time zones was initiated by the railroads in the 19th century so equating time with God is the same as equating God with the railroad barrons of the 1800s.
The railroads were having a terrible time preparing train schedules since each little burg had it's own official time. Twelve noon was when the sun was at it's highest.
Just imagine trying to prepare a train schedule and having to know the time difference for every little burg in the US. The railroads got together and devised our system of time zones where noon was the same time everywhere within a zone. Each zone was basically the distance a train could travel in 24 hours explaining the difference in widths among the zones.