A good question is what sort of people would want to do that?
Some people find adjusting their schedule difficult and complain of medical issues.
Now please consider the people who work outside and what it means for them. An hour of strenuous labor in 72°F weather is much easier than an hour of strenuous labor in 92°F weather. Daylight Time means exchanging a hot hour for a cool one for people on an 8 hour per day schedule. That can mean a significant difference day after day for a long time. Notice that the problems caused by the change of time are much shorter in duration around the one day at the start and the one day at the end of Daylight Time. There will be far more heat related medical issues between.
The growing number of people who "work" indoors has perhaps led to less consideration for those who do not.
But media often report that "farmers" do not especially ask to use Daylight Time.
There is a problem with journalism lately in that they are not really good at science. Farmers are often self employed, therefore it is not often relevant to them what the clock might say. Landscapers and construction workers are typically not self employed and have 8 hour workdays that are necessarily tied to a clock. Many other workers will have to work outdoors part of their day moving equipment in or out, working in open garages and so on. If they do not complain it might well be that because they are not self employed and in order to get and keep jobs they might be reticent to voice their complaints.
Another good question is what are the people working indoors doing? Should it not be paperwork that benefits the people who produce the more apparent and tangible goods?
If there are so many more people working indoors, why don't the people who work outdoors simply change the time they start and finish? The good reason they do not is that they usually have to work with other people from other employers. Construction sites often have people from various employers for each type of task. Then why don't they just coordinate their schedules? That is what Daylight time is.
Why not use the summer clock year round? There can be a problems with chlidren going to school in the dark, and people trying to work in the dark. Again, those problems are day after day, not just at the change of time.
Another significant benefit of Dayight Time is the energy saved heating and cooling buildings when people are not at work or not active at home.
| Schedule Grid | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST = Standard Time DT = Daylight Time | ||||
| This method of presenting a schedule on a grid is accurate when read before, during or after events that happen over the change in time. If a task or a show lasts more than one hour it spans the same amount of its grid panel whether it occurs before, during or after the time change. However it does require that hours be designated Standard or Daylight in each block. | ||||
| Spring Forward from Standard to Daylight Time | ||||
| 12 am ST | 1 am ST | 3 am DT | 4 am DT | |
| a project | a task | a task | a task | a task |
| a network | a show | a show | a show | a show |
| Fall Back from Daylight to Standard Time | ||||
| 12 am DT | 1 am DT | 1 am ST | 2 am ST | |
| a project | a task | a task | a task | a task |
| a network | a show | a show | a show | a show |