Thats not really something DST affects. Everybody is on standard time now (daylight time affects Mar-Nov) so even if we didnt use DST, you would be getting out of school when its dark. The difference is if we didnt use it at all, then for the past couple months you'd have been getting out as it gets dark instead of it just happening lately now that DST isnt in effect
DST isnt supposed to "make a blanket longer" as the pic puts it. Its meant to change WHEN the daylight hours are. Since jobs usually have a set time (ie working from 8-5) it doesnt take into account length of daylight throughout the year or when daylight actually is. If you didnt use DST, winter would be exactly how it is now. We aren't on DST from Nov-March so the time would be the same using DST or not using it. The difference is during the summer, daylight hours are when more people would actually use them. For instance, where I live on June 20th, without DST daylight would be from 4:30AM to 7:30PM. Most people arent even awake for 2-3 hours of daylight, and then ARE awake for 2-3 hours after sunset. However, WITH DST, daylight is 5:30 to 8:30. This shifts the daylight hours to where more people are awake DURING DAYLIGHT
the only reason we have daylight savings is so that we don't constantly need to change how many days are in a year, or hours in a day. one year it would be 365, 365, 400, 300, 200..that shit would get annoying really fast.
Daylight savings, leap years and any other calender/clock changes that we currently deal with only exist because the structures we have in place (i.e. 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, roughly 30 days in a month, etc.) they are all wrong. None of them accurately measure time. This is due mostly because of the fact that time is an illusion. It's a concept invented by humans. Yes, the earth makes x rotations in x "time" and that's how we can measure it. The earth changes rotational speed and tilt almost constantly, which changes time how we know it. If the calender and clocks were set up accurately fluctuations in time would occur far more often than what we perceive.
I am the one and only guest, and I can tell you that my first comment was talking about why it is. DST's past and present. You thought I was talking about what happens because of it, which is nothing but complaining.
I always thought it was something to do with helping out farmers during one of the world wars. Huh. For leap years (and leap seconds etc) it makes sense, but daylight savings doesn't add or subtract anything to the clock, it just shuffles it around.
It's not 'to' have a longer day. It's purpose is to give the perception of a longer day. The days are already longer in the summer due to the axis of the earth's rotation.
Meh. I love arguing with trolls. Largely because I too find myself trolling people. Debate is fun, particularly scientific debate. Religion is fun too, but I find those people much harder to talk to.
-The Downvoted Guest
While you're at it, read up on time zones.
Literally the first thing it says is what I said