It's, like, THE STANDARD

Yeah, no clue why everyone's going DST instead. I think having politicians make science decisions is a really dumb idea.

People like daylight time in the summers, because that gives them the opportunity to do things after work in sunlight. For places where they're getting 16 hours of sunlight, they'd generally prefer sunrise at 5am and sunset at 9pm, rather than 4am to 8pm.

But daylight time is terrible in the winters. Sunlight from 8am to 4pm is probably better than 9am to 5pm.

That's basically why we had daylight savings switching clocks to begin with. But the fundamental tradeoff in the higher latitudes was always summer versus winter.

Because I want it to be light out later in the day

Because most of the year is already daylight savings time. We're only in standard time for 4 months from November to March. It doesn't sound like a big difference from being 50/50, but we're in DST twice as long as we're in standard time.

North/West vs South/East in each time zone

There are 4 time zones in the US

The more North/West you live in a time zone the more you hate DST. The more South/East you live the more you like DST.

If you live in blue you probably hate DST, yellow probably like DST

All stems from states like Michigan should be in CST not EST. If Michigan was in CST then permanent DST would make it EST and they would be in "standard" time still.

"standard" time is only used about 1/3 of the year. We use DST most of the year. Minimizing disruption, we should just drop that exception.

With DST, solar noon is pretty close to 12PM on the eastern end of the time zone. With standard time, solar noon lines up closer to 11AM on the eastern edge. Standard time just doesn't make sense.

Because light in the evening is better than light at night.