Winter is standard time, so that's your "normal" time with short days, and most people are awake for all sunlight hours — so moving it around doesn't do much.

Winter is standard time, so that's your "normal" time with short days, and most people are awake for all sunlight hours — so moving it around doesn't do much. Summer, you take an hour of sunlight from the early morning (somewhere between ~3-7am, depending on time of year and your latitude), and "move" it to the evening where nearly everyone can enjoy it. What your describing with the blanket analogy is exactly what people are proposing with permanent DST in the winter. It will be dark through late morning. The USA tried that once in the 70s for a year, then abandoned it when everyone who initially supported it realized they actually hated it.