It was originally done for farmers right? basically so they could have more time to pick in daylight.

Kinda redundant in most countries now, considering that only a few places actually farm stuff and we have, you know, lights on vehicles and stuff now.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery The thing is, we tend to go through these things even though nobody really knows why. It doesn't really save energy, the farmers don't really care about it, and here up north the sun doesn't even set during the summer so that extra hour of light is really meaningless to us.

Indeed up in the north it's not very useful. Probably there are other reasons to remain in-line with other countries.

It indeed has nothing to do with farmers:

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It became widely adopted, particularly in North America and Europe starting in the 1970s as a result of the 1970s energy crisis.

Enough to read for who's interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Funny however that it was first mentioned in New Zealand in 1895:

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Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895

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Gets dark at 5:3O in LA now. Still not used to the long nights...

Daylight savings time sucks! Only good for the one day after the switch when you get that extra hour to sleep in. Now it's dark at 4:30. Awful.

It sucks because I hate the Sun and heat.

I've always wondered why daylight saving regions don't just split the difference and permanently set clocks half an hour in between?

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I prefer the standard time -- I'm a morning person, so seeing the sun again in the AM is preferred. I wish we didn't do the time warp again and just stay on this. I feel like it's 2015....do we really still need this in modern times?