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I really, really, really, don't understand how making me wake up an hour earlier all summer saves energy.
Before clocks and electric lights became widely used, people used to get up around dawn. That would enable people to make the most efficient use of daylight. Nowadays, people get up the same time every day, or sleep in when they can. In the summer, that means that they get up well after dawn, meaning that the early daylight is unused and wasted.
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I do sleep better if I stay up an hour later....
In terms of energy use, that is the problem. By sleeping in an extra hour (and wasting an hour of daylight), you stay up an extra hour into the night and use an extra hour's worth of electricity for lighting.
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Not that this helps your problem any, just an explanation of how energy is saved by daylight savings time.
If people think that going to daylight savings time all year round will save energy, then that would have to be because nowadays people in general, all year round, get up too late to make maximum use of available daylight.
P.S. I don't like daylight savings time, either. But then, I tend to get up anyway just before or around sunrise anyway, so the energy savings doesn't work for me. Where I waste energy is when my work schedule makes me get up before dawn, forcing me to use electricity in the morning.
Also, my work space doesn't have windows, so I'm forced to use electricity all throughout the day anyway, so daylight savings time has absolutely no effect on how much energy I end up using.
Anyway, the main problem is living in a society addicted to clocks.
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