DST or ST?

Since the subject of Daylight Saving Time, which just came back on March 12th, seems to be on a few peoples' minds right now, I'd like to weigh in.

Very few people seem to be against the idea of abolishing the switch twice a year. We appear, in fact, to be very close to convincing enough politicians to abolish the tradition that we may see it go away in the years to come. But the question remains, are we asking to stay on Standard Time, or are we asking to remain on Daylight Saving Time. Note that I did not call it 'Daylight Savings Time', as that is not what it's called. [Thanks Randy V for the insight] The reason I ask is because half of y'all seem to want to stay with ST and half want to stay with DST. Until we have a consensus on this, we're never going to get the change removed.

I propose we stick with DST. Hear me out. In the winter, under normal time, it gets dark early enough that many of us end up both going to work and returning home in the dark. This is depressing. If we were to stay with DST, we might have to wait another hour for the sun to rise in the winter morning, but at least it would still be light out when we go home at the end of the day. It is for this reason that I believe we should stay with DST.

For those of you who don't get to enjoy very late sunsets like we do in northern latitudes, you will also have to watch the sun go down an hour earlier in the summer. I know that it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to see the sun go down at 8:55pm instead of 9:55pm in June where I live, but do you really want to see sunset at 7pm rather than 8pm in southern California? Also, how'd you like a sunrise at 4:40am? I didn't think so. You need your beauty sleep.

Keeping DST will allow folks to play golf and other sports later in the day. A later sunset gives you time to watch it long after you've cleaned up after supper, or drove home from the restaurant after supper. How many times have you missed the sunset because you were busy doing other early evening things? Again, not to rub it in or anything, but you could also move to northern Canada and get sunset at like 11pm. Or if you keep going, like no sunset at all. Good luck sleeping though.

So I think it makes more sense to keep DST. Then we would stop calling it daylight saving time and just call it what it is. Sunset time. Same abbreviation too (ST).