But if we stayed in daylight saving time, in January the sun wouldn't rise until like 9 am in some places.

Maybe if we just stayed in standard time all year round, the shortening days wouldn't be so jarring to people because it would happen gradually instead of having a sudden fall back of an hour in autumn.

Or we stay in daylight saving time all year round and just accept the dark mornings.

Or the people who really don't like shorter days in winter can just move to the equator.

Agreed! I got up this morning at 6:30 and had already wasted some daylight, and then it was night before 5!

I want summer time the whole year. Summer time is warmer.

Same. This messed with my head so much the first time it happened.

Those long summer evenings though......👌

NW Florida here, latest sunset is 7:55PM. Today it's at 4:58PM. :( Living in Chicago I saw sunsets around 8:30 in the summer.

I've had it in reverse while visiting Germany.

Yeah, was gonna say, 17.27 it's been long dark in southern Scandinavia

Sounds perfect.

Finland has been #1 on the happiness rankings for a long time.

I hear you. Even with “fall back”, I will go to sleep at the new time, but will wake up an hour before my alarm, effectively loosing an hour of sleep every night. I’m a mess after a week until my body adjusts again.

Technically, this is daylight savings time ending, so this is changing the clock back to the normal time zone. But yes, they should probably stop it

My sleep has been amazing since the switch. Go to bed tired because it feels like I stayed up an extra hour, wake up an hour early because my biological clock thinks it's time to get up and then get to chill and take my time getting ready in the morning. It's nice. The spring one on the other hand...

This ^^^

The EU were well on the way to agreeing to stop this nonsense, then it got delayed, Brexit happened (so whether it would still have happened in the UK is anybody's guess), and COVID hit. I don't think it has been mentioned since.

They always try to keep the summer time, and everyone is happy until winter, when people get so upset at waking before dawn they inevitably return to the daylight savings system

It does have to be permanent winter time, this has been studied and has clear results

Idk, i think 12h of daylight every day would be nice...we hit something like 7h of daylight where I live during winter. And we don't even have snow or anything to make it nice, we just have a gray wet depressing mess of winters.

Akshually days still remain 24 hours a piece

Just cause you aren't doesn't mean the rest of us aren't.

It's going to be sunny and 60° F this week for me - and those temps will be late afternoon - 4pm till sunset.

Standard time is where most human circadian rhythms naturally land, so yeah.

You still get the same amount of sunlight regardless of what the funny time piece says, it's just a matter of what's considered acceptable times. I feel like you'd cause less overall issues if we just changed open hours as needed so as to match with daylight instead of the current nonsense.

Norra Norrland in January is lit - no wait, the opposite of lit, but in a good way.