In the summer, we already have lots of sunlight regardless, so it doesn't make sense to optimize for that.
It shifts my contracted start time at work, my first meeting, when places start serving lunch, when my kid needs to get to ballet class, when my sportsball club meets, and when the supermarket closes. All at once.
Lawmakers changing the time shown on clocks is, I think, a lot easier than society changing the social contract.
If it didn't would the government actually care?
Most of the population is in the east, in which clock-noon and solar-noon is better matched:
* https://www.china-mike.com/china-travel-tips/tourist-maps/ch...
Doubt Beijing listens to the complaints from Lasa (Tibet) much.
I wouldn't want to have to learn a different schedule such as getting up at midnight, having lunch at 04:00 then going to bed at 15:00. That would also make jet lag much worse because you wouldn't be able to rely on your watch to know what activity you're supposed to be doing at the time.
I don't think that's very realistic though is it? School times are fixed and that anchors a lot of families to those specific times, and businesses tend to have set hours.
Changing the time to give people more light in the evening frees up a bunch of people to enjoy some sunlight without making it a whole fight to have different hours at work.
If that's what passes for aspiration these days then the labour movement truly is dead.
Move to DST and if you want the ability to start your day later and end later, [...].
