I definitely agree. That’s why Daylight Saving Time itself is silly. But, if you take DST proponents arguments at face value that peoples’ schedules are irrevocably chained to the numbers that appear on their clocks, then they are getting less sunlight in the morning in favor of more sunlight in the late afternoon or evening. And, if the Professor’s assertions are accurate, for those who suffer from SAD, sunlight in the morning is more useful in preventing depression than sunlight in the evening.

I am probably biased on this issue (SAD, and DLS in general). From the fall (right about now) clear through until the mid-spring, it’s dark when I leave the home in the morning and dark when I get home in the evening. Regardless of which way you shift the clock, this is going to be the case.

The prospect of that “extra hour or daylight” I would “get” under central time in the winter (shining through my office window) doesn’t cheer me up very much.