"Ken Blake" wrote

| I don't know whether you mean that as a joke or it's true, but it
| makes sense to me. As far as I'm concerned, DST would be more valuable
| in the winter, when it gets dark earlier, than in the summer.
|

In a way that's true, but it also means getting
up in the dark, and maybe kids going to school
in the dark.

In Boston, where I live, it starts to get light in the
Winter around 7AM and dark a little after 4 PM.
In Summer it's 4:30AM and 8:30 PM. And that's
with DST. Without it we'd have 3:30 and 7:30.
We're on the eastern side of an oversized time zone.
So DST is a big help. For awhile we had it year
-round, but people complained about it being
dangerous for kids to walk to school in the dark.

What we really need is to enter the Atlantic
time zone AND have DST in the Summer.

Someone in Indiana may have daylight until after
9:30 PM during Summer with DST. I'd prefer that.
I certainly wouldn't notice that it was dark all the
way until 5:30 AM.

It all depends on your latitude and where you
are in a time zone. The closer to the equator, the
less it matters. And it depends on what your personal
schedule is like.

In any case, I think this is what's known as the
effete level of 1st-world problems.