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But it doesn't really save energy. It's only a really very short period of time when you don't need light in the morning and evening.

Fortunately, "the people" are not allowed to decide everything. If anything, then permanent standard time. But the fun society would not go along with that - so it's good that they are not allowed to decide.

If we decide on standard time all year round, it will already be light at 3 a.m. in June and you will sit in the dark at 8-9 p.m., not like now, when it is sometimes light until just before 10 p.m. You could of course just shift your daily routine, but general daily social life is not designed for that.

At the summer solstice on 21.06., sunset was at 9:53 p.m. this year, and the "last light" was at 10:46 p.m. The whole thing would shift forward by only one hour with year-round standard time, so the sun would set just before 9 p.m., with residual light until just before 10 p.m.

That sounds a lot less terrible to me than "you sit in the dark at 8-9 p.m."

On the summer solstice on June 21st, the sunset this year was at 9:53 PM, the "last light" was at 10:46 PM. The whole thing would only shift forward by one hour with permanent standard time, so sun until just before 9 PM, twilight until just before 10 PM. That sounds to me much less terrible than "you sit in the dark at 8-9 PM"

You forget the curvature of the Earth; between Berlin and Karlsruhe there is about a 30-minute difference, experienced personally when my wife still lived in Berlin and we chatted regularly. In the east, it is already dark at 8 PM within the time zone.

You forget the curvature of the Earth; between Berlin and Karlsruhe, there is about a 30-minute difference, experienced myself when my wife still lived in Berlin and we regularly chatted. In the east, it is already dark by 8 pm within the same time zone.

Sorry, true. My data was from Hamburg, where it stays light a bit longer in the summer. Curiously, according to my overview, Berlin and Karlsruhe are practically aligned; apparently, north (longer light) and east (darker earlier) almost balance out in theory.

If daylight saving time is abolished, will everyone move to Northern Germany?