Do we have DST backwards?

[Micca]

I like daylight as much as the next guy. As I look out my window at 6:30pm this evening, I am thinking that there will be this much light tomorrow evening at 7:30pm. Around here in the summer with DST, we have dusk around 8:45pm. In the winter, it is dark by 5pm. Wouldn't you rather have light till 6pm or a little later when it's cold outside, rather than have enough light to read by at 9pm in the summer????

 

[Beth76]

I don't get it either. I don't see why it's "better" for it to be dark by 9pm instead of 8pm. Isn't that late enough? It just keeps the kiddies up longer anyway. I was really ticked when I was working 7am-3pm a few years ago. I had just started getting used to waking up that early, then the time changes and it's dark when I have to get up. Ugh. No one should have to wake up when it's still dark out.

 

[georgina]

I like it this way. Darker in winter, lighter in summer. We don't do anything outside in the winter at night, but love to be out in the summer!

 

[DebbieB]

I think it's more of what time it would get light in the morning. Without DST, it would be light at 4:30am in the summer. I'd rather have the extra sunlight in the evening.

 

[delilah]

Here in Indiana, we don't have DST. The sun comes up, it seems, about 5am or so. Personally, I would prefer to have sunlight later in the evening, when I want to be up and doing things, rather than at 5 am, while I am still asleep, or at least, trying to sleep. Of course, the day is much shorter in winter than it is in summer. Since it is close to the vernal equinox, we have close to 12 hours of daylight. In late December, on the other hand, I drive to work in darkness and come home from work in darkness. It has only been the past few weeks that the sun has been rising on my way into work.

 

[Charade]

I've always wondered about the people who live in Indiana and work over the state line during DST or Standard time. Doesn't that screw up your commute?

You leave your house for work at 7am, drive for 30 minutes and get to work at 6:30AM?

 

[Micca]

Never knew it got light at 5am.

 

[donnajon]

I have always heard that it has something to do with farming and allowing the farmers extra hours in the sprig/summer to get their chores done. Now I personally wish they would just leave the extra hour and never "fall back"

 

[yourtravelpro]

Here, in Seattle, in the summer, it doesn't get dark until 10pm.

 

[lewdyan1]

Here is a link that explains DST.

http://www.governmentguide.com/govs...920155,http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

 

[Sandy22]

I have always heard that it has something to do with farming and allowing the farmers extra hours in the sprig/summer to get their chores done. Now I personally wish they would just leave the extra hour and never "fall back"

I wonder why we have to fall back too! I love the DLS in the summer and it would make winter so much more pleaseant if it didn't get dark at 4:30 pm.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

There was a short time over this past winter where it started to get dark around 3:15. No wonder I suffer from S.A.D.