[American Quilter]

How is having to turn the lights on an hour earlier going to save energy? Not being a morning person, I'm very cranky about this. My own preference would be to end DST at the end of September.

[paulat]

I was hoping to hear what people think about this time change!

[Cobra64]

Not being a morning person...

I'm not either. I'm retired and get up around 9am. I like the idea of another hour of daylight in my time clock.

[Trust but Verify]

For just the reason you stated! Think about it: fewer people are up early in the day than at the dinner hour. Fewer people =less energy. It makes a LOT of sense.

[KarlInOhio]

In general our lives are skewed to the later part of the day. Get up at 7am (noon -5 hours), into work at 8am (noon -4 hours), leave work at 5pm (noon +5 hours), eat dinner, watch TV, go out, go to bed at 11 pm (noon +11 hours). So the typical middle of the time awake is 3pm. DST moves the clock a little so that solar noon is at 1pm.

My own preference would be to end DST at the end of September.

6:30 sunsets starting in September. Yuck! Give me every bit of evening light I can get. Light is wasted if I'm just eating breakfast and driving to work.