alt Hacker NewsRight, but where I live sunrise is in the middle of the night in the summer (around 03:30). Using standard time in the summer gives me one less hour of useful sunlight in the evening, and while it doesn't technically disappear it gets moved to where I can't use it because that's when I sleep. It's the same for people further south as well, another bright hour in the early morning before they wake up is a wasted bright hour that would make more sense in the evening, when most modern humans are awake. The argument "noon should coincide with solar noon" is nonsensical to me, the clock is a social construct and should make sense for how most of us live our lives.
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Optimizing for summer is silly. Summer gets lots of daylight already. We need to optimize for winter.
But the social construct of work hours shifted later by more than that one hour during the last century, so this is not what people actually prefer by their actions.