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(I'm an American so I'm not immediately in the discussion about whether Europe does DST or not but I do have opinions on DST itself)
I prefer Summer time, but I honestly don't care which one "we" stick to as long as we quit fucking with the goddamn clocks. I don't care if we split the difference, set the clocks to a half-hour between, and leave them there.
I HATE the logic of actually moving the clocks back and forth.
I care which one we stick to because going home at 5pm in the dark is depressing for a whole month in the northern half of the US. Iโd much rather go to work in the dark then go home with the last bit of light and do something fun before the sun sets.
See if I was in charge that would be managed by "our company opens at 8AM" vs "our company opens at 7PM." Not the dumbass 20th century idea cancer where you reset every clock everywhere.
I think the USA already tried the permanent summer time thing. They stopped after two years, because it was bad.
If you actually would like to get up earlier for work or school, then yes, summer time is indeed better for you. You are also part of a small minority that sees it that way. Most would like to get up and show up to work later instead.
Arizona and Hawaii don't switch their clocks to this day, I don't know if they're aligned with "DST" or "Standard" time which I can never keep track of which is which so I call them "summer" and "winter" time.
Standard time is winter time. I never remember what daylight savings time is either. In German it's just summer time and normal time/winter time. You're not actually saving any daylight by moving the clocks around!
There is a bit of leeway which time zone to choose. I mean Spain and Poland are doing fine too. But 1 hour offset from normal seems to be the limit of what is reasonable.
This whole discussion would be useless if we just introduce flexible working hours and have school start an hour late. Instead of 9-5 you'd have 10-6 and people won't have to get up as early.