Wait, what? You don't gain extra natural light in summer due to DST. The days become longer naturally due to the angle of the earth wrt the sun. DST makes you get up earlier to "enjoy" that longer, sunnier day, but that one hour is probably pointless in terms of mental health improvement.
Besides, summer isn't the time when sunlight is lacking. Winter is when people get vitamin D depressed, and no time change is going to fix that for northern countries.
Yep, it makes no difference. I get up at 5:30 to go to work. Even during DST it's still dark in the morning, and it's not like I'm really getting any exposure to the light on the bus to work. But the consequence is that when I leave work at 4, it's pitch black outside where the sun would have been setting before.
Which country do you live in? In the south of Europe we center the day (lunch) around 13:00 to 15:00 so if Earth axis would be perpendicular to its orbit (always 12 hours of light) we would pick sunrise at 8 and sunset at 20. With DST we have sunrise at 5 and sunset at 21 in June. A double or triple DST would suit us better. If we stop using DST in Europe I hope that my country moves at least one time zone to the east.
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Wait, what? You don't gain extra natural light in summer due to DST. The days become longer naturally due to the angle of the earth wrt the sun. DST makes you get up earlier to "enjoy" that longer, sunnier day, but that one hour is probably pointless in terms of mental health improvement.
Besides, summer isn't the time when sunlight is lacking. Winter is when people get vitamin D depressed, and no time change is going to fix that for northern countries.
Yep, it makes no difference. I get up at 5:30 to go to work. Even during DST it's still dark in the morning, and it's not like I'm really getting any exposure to the light on the bus to work. But the consequence is that when I leave work at 4, it's pitch black outside where the sun would have been setting before.
DST is pointless and antiquated.
Which country do you live in? In the south of Europe we center the day (lunch) around 13:00 to 15:00 so if Earth axis would be perpendicular to its orbit (always 12 hours of light) we would pick sunrise at 8 and sunset at 20. With DST we have sunrise at 5 and sunset at 21 in June. A double or triple DST would suit us better. If we stop using DST in Europe I hope that my country moves at least one time zone to the east.