Opinions about DST vary, perhaps reflecting how a person's "internal clock" functions. Biological differences play a role, some people are natural early risers, others tend to stay up late. I'm in the latter category so I strongly favor DST, but I can see how others might hate it.
It's exacerbated living north of the 45th parallel. Officially we get about 16 hours of daylight/nighttime at the solstices. However, it's actually much worse than the raw data suggests.
Living in the shadow of hills to the west, among tall trees, in a rainy climate with frequent heavily overcast skies, after DST goes off, by 3:00PM the sky is already dark. No wonder a lot of people around here look forward to March and return of DST.
The morning effect is minimal, winter sunrise comes quite late. At year's end it's after 7:50AM, so it's dark on the way to work no matter what the weather and DST would not make the morning commute any dimmer.
OTOH >16 hours of summer daylight is amazing and delightful. The place just comes alive. While we can't legislate the seasons, keeping DST longer than we do would at least be a small token of compensation.
It's exacerbated living north of the 45th parallel. Officially we get about 16 hours of daylight/nighttime at the solstices. However, it's actually much worse than the raw data suggests.
Living in the shadow of hills to the west, among tall trees, in a rainy climate with frequent heavily overcast skies, after DST goes off, by 3:00PM the sky is already dark. No wonder a lot of people around here look forward to March and return of DST.
The morning effect is minimal, winter sunrise comes quite late. At year's end it's after 7:50AM, so it's dark on the way to work no matter what the weather and DST would not make the morning commute any dimmer.
OTOH >16 hours of summer daylight is amazing and delightful. The place just comes alive. While we can't legislate the seasons, keeping DST longer than we do would at least be a small token of compensation.