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I feel like I'm in such a minority of people who think DST is great.

No. I don't like spring forward, but fall back gets me a nice boost as suddenly the sun comes up an 8 am rather than 9.

It's winter. The sun is going to set at either four or five (where I live, it's certainly worse other places and better others). You're not getting daylight after work. It's winter.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It is all about having more end of day daylight hours in places where winter daylight is in short supply. For a lot of people it means a much healthier lifestyle with an evening walking habit they lose because of the dark.

I've ridden a bike in the evening most days for the last 15 years. I have no problem ridding after dark. I find it slightly harder to stay motivated on the shortest winter days but I manage. However the number of people that were regularly on the trails walking and running drops by an order of magnitude. I switch it up and ride earlier a few days a month from November to February, and I don't see regular people out then. There are a lot of people that develop solid habits for a year that then lose them because of a time change that was made for the industrial era's corporate interests.

The only thing I will miss is that extra hour for astronomy on the roof with a telescope. The USA needs all the health help it can possibly get though.