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Since it’s getting dark earlier after work, how does this maximize daylight outside of work? > They would like to travel to work after sunrise. They would also

Since it’s getting dark earlier after work, how does this maximize daylight outside of work? > They would like to travel to work after sunrise. They would also like to maximize the amount of daylight they get to enjoy outside of work.

function_seven 8y ago
Well the seasons don't give us much wiggle room here, so the thinking is to (1) make sure the sun has risen when you set off for work. If there's extra sunlight still, then (2) let's have that after work. In the winter, you can't have both, so you pick #1. In the summer, you have "extra" sunlight that's being wasted on the sleeping, so you shift it to after work and get #1 and #2.
henrikschroder 8y ago
Here's a pretty good graph that illustrates the concept: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco DST ensure that sunrise is kept at around 6 in the morning, this removes the "waste" of daylight from before most people wake up, and moves it to after work hours in the summer. Here's the same graph for Stockholm: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/stockholm https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/stockholm There's not enough daylight in the winter to cover an entire working day and more, and there's too much daylight in the summer so everyone will "waste" it by sleeping, which makes DST pretty much useless. Edit: Here's Honolulu for reference: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/honolulu https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/honolulu The band of daylight is almost the same width over the year, so moving it up and down doesn't do anything for people.
- ants_a 8y ago
  I live in the same latitude as Stockholm, and the extra hour of daylight in the afternoon is still nice in the summer, while having the sun rise one hour earlier would be more an annoyance than a benefit. We tried that, it was definitely not an improvement. I wouldn't actually mind keeping daylight savings time the whole year to reduce the time of the year when it's pitch black outside at all non-business hours.

function_seven 8y ago

Well the seasons don't give us much wiggle room here, so the thinking is to (1) make sure the sun has risen when you set off for work. If there's extra sunlight still, then (2) let's have that after work. In the winter, you can't have both, so you pick #1. In the summer, you have "extra" sunlight that's being wasted on the sleeping, so you shift it to after work and get #1 and #2.

henrikschroder 8y ago

Here's a pretty good graph that illustrates the concept: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco DST ensure that sunrise is kept at around 6 in the morning, this removes the "waste" of daylight from before most people wake up, and moves it to after work hours in the summer. Here's the same graph for Stockholm: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/stockholm https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/stockholm There's not enough daylight in the winter to cover an entire working day and more, and there's too much daylight in the summer so everyone will "waste" it by sleeping, which makes DST pretty much useless. Edit: Here's Honolulu for reference: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/honolulu https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/honolulu The band of daylight is almost the same width over the year, so moving it up and down doesn't do anything for people.

ants_a 8y ago
I live in the same latitude as Stockholm, and the extra hour of daylight in the afternoon is still nice in the summer, while having the sun rise one hour earlier would be more an annoyance than a benefit. We tried that, it was definitely not an improvement. I wouldn't actually mind keeping daylight savings time the whole year to reduce the time of the year when it's pitch black outside at all non-business hours.