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It is real simple.
Humans do most of the activity in daylight hours and DST helps us do that. In China they don't do daylight saving and the entire country is one time zone. Parts of China have midnight and still daylight and they are not up in the arctic circle. That is the other extreme.
With DST most of summer we get up and go to school or work or play in daylight hours. Without DST we would sleep away a couple of hours of daylight and have short afternoons. With DST even in March we will have daylight until 7:36 here today. In another few weeks we will be back to daylight for the morning commute.
In the dead of summer sunset is after 9:00 PM so much activity can be done without electric lights. We save a lot of energy.
It really is a logical thing but many people that can't change "body time" hate it. Normal people adjust in no time and get on with life in the daylight.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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