Singapore, which is near the equator and has about the same number of hours of daylight all year long, effectively observes daylight savings time all year long. The sun rises and sets around 7:00 AM and PM respectively. They shift one hour of daylight from morning to evening. In Massachusetts, the sun sets about 4:10 PM for a couple of weeks around December 9th. (The earliest sunset is not on December 21st.) It’s depressing, especially for people who work.
I like the idea of shifting sunset later in the day, and rising in the dark, since most people work in the morning anyway.
I live in Maine and have a 40 minute commute to work (each way) I really don’t like driving home at 4:30 pm in the dark.
I never understood the thought process behind this. It would be easier to simply adjust work and business schedules to start an hour earlier in the day, wouldn't it?
DST is idiotic.
Simply have winter and summer business hours but noon should be noon.DST is a holdover from WWI and deserves to be in the dustbin of history.
The government decided (intelligently, in my view) to have only one time zone, and (again intelligently) picked +8. Singapore was then part of Malaysia; when she became independent in 1965 she decided it would be too confusing to use a different time zone from the rest of Malaysia, so here we are.
The best part of living here, though, is that the length of the day never changes. So I wake up at the same sun time every day - about 0645. I then get to work typically at 0745, and so enjoy at least 2 hours of daylight after work, which I much appreciate. I also live a 12 minute walk from work, which is another blessing after my horrid commute back in Pittsburgh.