This is one for the books.

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Would extending daylight savings time give us more daylight?

See Rep. Ed Markey's comments:

Depends on your perspective. The quote sounds really stupid, like
the farmer that sued the government for changing the day and making his
crops fail, or the dairy operator whose cows went berserk and didn't give
the milk at the assigned (DST) time.
Personally, I don't particularly like daylight savings time in the first
place. But, considering the logic of shifting the clock hands so more
daylight appears at the end of the day does make sense in conserving
electricity. Ask your municipality what are the costs for street lighting
and it won't make any difference over the year. But if all the house lights
don't go on for another hour into the evening, the energy savings could be
substantial.
There's two problems here. Hardly anybody understands the "savings" part
of DST, and legislators like Markey make stupid statements -- or, the
statement is taken out of context.