Actually it's the other way around. DST saves daylight in the evening, and steals it from the morning. When the U.S. was in energy-crisis mode in the 70s, during the Carter administration, for a short time the whole country went to year-round DST in an (apparently misguided) attempt to save even more energy. During the winter, a few school children were struck by cars and killed on the way to school in the morning, partly because it was dark. So parents will appreciate standard time, not DST, for school mornings.
On the other side of the coin, part of the argument for extending DST to the first Sunday in November, several years ago, was that there would be more light (and safety) for kids to go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Right you are. I had to look up a graphic to make sense of it. I've always had it in my head that it was helping the morning sunlight too.
http://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/daylight-saving-time-explained_5096f7937aee4_w1500.png
I'd delete my original post if I could, but alas, my stupidity is immortalized on the interwebs.
