I really don't understand what people think they're gaining with a permanent DST offset. It's not going to increase the amount of sunlight in each day.

If you don't like the timing of your job (e.g., you feel like you don't get enough sunlight after work), the correct thing to do is talk to your boss or find a different job, not to make people put offsets in their clocks to fool your boss.

Like it or not, there are many things in society that happen at particular clock times and can't easily be changed. I can change my working hours however I want, but I can't change when my kid needs to be at school, for instance.

It's not about the amount of total sunlight during the day but rather how much sunlight is available to you during hours that you are "free" and not working or otherwise busy. It's far easier to just change the standard once than all the numerous activities that an individual might be bound to during the course of the day, especially many that they have no control over scheduling.

For many people (like in government or blue-collar jobs), it's just not as simple as talking to the boss or finding a different job. However I see no reason why they don't deserve a better level of comfort that works for everyone.

it's not about the timing of my job. i could wake an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier.

but then, the rest of the world will have an extra hour in the evening (assuming they continue as they were before), while i sleep.

i am essentially saying that the world should rise and fall based on my preference for where sunlight falls. and the other side would say the same, naturally.

early risers vs night owls. and no solution can make everyone happy.