Would you rather have darker evenings or darker mornings?

Meaning that, if the switch between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time were done away with, which one would you prefer be all year round? Daylight Savings Time (so lighter in the evening but darker in the morning) or Standard Time (darker in the evening, but lighter in the morning)?

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AdaXI · 41-45, T

Over here in Britain I would definitely say lighter evenings (BST). I mean otherwise in the middle of the summer it would be getting light at around 2-3am when most people are not long in bed and starting to get dark at around 8pm and most people like having a few hours extra light on a night to do stuff over the summer.
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onewithshoes · 22-25, F

@AdaXI
Fine, so start the work day earlier if you want, and gain those evening hours.
We can use the time God gives us however we want without being silly and pretending it's a different time than it naturally is.

AdaXI · 41-45, T

@onewithshoes Hey that's fair enough but that wasn't really in the two options put forward by the poster. You've made a 3rd option, I see what you did there.😄

I mean ok we could leave it in GMT (or standard time if you call it that) and we could all get up and go to work an hour earlier then we could come home an hour earlier so in that sense we would all still have an extra hour of daylight in the summertime, yeah sure job done.

I mean I don't really care about changing the time zone twice a year, or whether it stays in 'standard' and we all just get up an hour earlier clock wise to compensate, or if it moves to BST it's still the same time.

All I'm getting at is, if I had to pick a 'fixed time' that never ever changed so I've either got to pick more daylight in the morning or more daylight on an evening. Well I'd prefer it to be in the evening.
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onewithshoes · 22-25, F

@AdaXI No, I was not suggesting any third option, but expressing support for the second option, standard time year round; and simply observing that schools and businesses always have the option of adjusting their own hours to their own preferences anyway.

AdaXI · 41-45, T

@onewithshoes Well that's fair enough just as long as you understand many of us would want an hour more on an evening rather than in a morning particularly in the summer. I mean no one really cares what timezone we're working with if you're just going to change all the opening hours to suit everyone anyway, you could do that with any timezone.
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