One of the very few ideas from Ben Franklin that turns out to be stupid in actual practice.
Instead of jerking the time of day around twice a year, how about in the summer everybody just goes to work an hour earlier?
Frankly, I miss the summer evenings.
By the way, if saving on electricity is supposed to be one of the reasons for DST, haven’t we already fixed that by outlawing incandescent bulbs? This is beginning to sound like one of those “green” things, that can never be fixed, no matter what we do.
Everybody does go to work an hour earlier. That’s the point.
Instead of each individual company deciding to do it or not, we all agree to move the clocks.
Imagine a world where twice a year we have to figure out if the dry cleaner or supermarket have gone to “seasonal hours” or not.
No one cares if it i light at 4:30 am, but it is nice to have dusk at 9.