• funbi - Thursday, March 8, 2018 4:41 AM

    John Mitchell-245523 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 4:13 AM

    funbi - Thursday, March 8, 2018 3:44 AM

    One of the proposals is to keep DST permanently and abolish "normal" time. So you get the benefits of extra daylight but no more clock changes.

    Yes, I've heard that proposed as well.  Note that you don't get any "extra" daylight, though: you get the same amount of daylight but at a slightly different time of day.

    John

    Ok well I'm not going to get into a semantic/pedantic argument about it but I think it is quite obvious what my meaning was, as well as the meaning the phrase "extra hours of daylight" in the original post.

    OK, fair enough.  But the issue is that (for many, if not most, people) in summer it is indeed a benefit, whereas in winter it isn't because it gets light too late in the morning.  That's why we have DST in the first place.

    John