BurlOak
Senior Member
There is a certain number of hours of daylight per day. To get more daylight in the evening - you can either move the clocks, or adjust your starting time in the day.Call it "Standard Time", but use "Daylight Time" as the standard. More daylight in the evening.
Take August 1 - about halfway between the longest and average day of the year.
Sunrise = 06:06. Sunset = 20:40 on Savings Time.
Sunrise = 05:06. Sunset = 19:40 on Standard Time.
As long as people wake up an hour earlier (according to the clock - not the amount of daylight), they get the same amount of afternoon (meaning after work) daylight.
How to get people to wake up earlier.
In the savings time period (April to October), all government offices, schools, etc. start work an hour earlier. All CRTC regulations related to TV shows move an hour earlier. All bar hours move an hour earlier. Basically, everyone would adjust to the new time to wake up. Although they are waking up earlier according to the clock, they are waking up at the same time according to the sun.
Then every place in the world has Standard Time - and it's always the same change in time regardless of the time of year.