No more Daylight Savings Time?

[Frenzie]

@Ema

Without knowing THE TRUTH, I prefer to safeguard the health of the planet

Except that without knowing the truth, you don’t know if you’re actively harming it either.

@Gffp

For geographic reasons, Southern European states, like Italy, get better benefits than others from summer time. Given that they are about halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, the duration of the days does not vary greatly between summer and winter. Therefore, moving forward by one hour makes the days longer, but not in such a way as to have light in the late evening.

Reduced negative effects != better benefits.

[Festarossa]

Here up north, I think we should give up moving the clocks, and adopt the DST permanently. Why? Winter mornings are dark here whether it would be a normal time or a DST. With the current system, when we get to home from work, it’s dark again! With permanent DST, we would see the sun at least once a day, when we get to home, or go to a grocery shop, or to a bank (though no one goes there anymore) or to a post office (no one goes there either), or get children from daycare, or something else.

The current system kills people up here! Seriously.