Are we as a nation too stupid or lazy to handle such a trivial task?
We adopted “Daylight Savings Time” for a reason, and that reason is as valid today as ever.
Folks enjoy a bit more daylight for summer outdoor activities after returning from work. Barbecuing, baseball, you name it. The alternative would be summer hours for work, maybe 7 to 4 instead of 8 to 5, but as I see it that entails far more hassle and conflict. The US is on Daylight Savings Time for 2/3 of the year already, but if it were made standard year round, there are places that would see nightfall at 3 or 3:30 PM during December and January.
Prepare for another raft of complaints about that nut punch.
Amen.
If people standing around in Starbucks texting each other can't figure it out take away their electronics and send them to a Remedial Arithmetic class.
I don't get to worked up about the sunrise side of the day. My employer has control of my time during those hours. I'm sitting inside with a keyboard and computer monitor.
You have it backwards. DST always adds another hour of light in the evening and subtracts one in the morning. The problem with year-round DST is darkness in the mornings, particularly darkness before school starts for children. Whenever it is tried, every kid hit by a car on the way to school is blamed on winter DST. There is a strong possibility that they are right.