Not everyone is a morning person, I'd rather have my daylight in the afternoon where it's actually useful to me. I suspect that most people agree with me.
It's the night people and delayed-cycle teenagers attending school who suffer most under permanent DST.
In the Winter, permanent DST means everyone has to get up an hour earlier for work or school, relative to the sun which regulates their body rhythm.
Night people already struggle with getting up early enough for these expectations. An hour earlier is going to be harder for them.
Research suggests that overall, health will suffer, sleep will be shorter, and educational attainment will reduce. But there will be more shopping so that's ok!
Well, actually, none of that is true and it's the division of time and systemization of behaviors around those divisions which certain social functions are, generally, arbitrarily centered around that will ultimately determine outcomes. Which is why there are proposals to do things like starting high schoolers later or moving to a 4 day workweek, which was proposed on the order of a century ago alongside drastic declines in labor hours necessary to produce ends meet. Instead we've got digitized time locks that track to the second and the maintenance of the status quo of a bygone era, and children shored up in living graves to make their dues in time far removed from agency.
Time is perhaps one of the most egregious facilitators of harm in the human domain. Both in manifest physical harm and as the root of a gamut of genuinely harmful behaviors without a real justifying rationale to back it. Haste makes waste. Rush drug trials and find out that thalidomide causes birth defects, that PFAs can't be ejected from the body, that tetraethyl lead is actually harmful... Rush to work and get in a car accident, rush the work and destroy the product... Rush the revolution and forget the human costs...Rush through life to get to the end... All so the trains can run on time.
Anyways, the point is that we can do better — we can be more humane. You could set the clock to whatever hour you please and in a decent society you'd be given free agency over your time or due compensation for the sacrifice of it.
Fair enough. I certainly skipped many first periods even with time changes, though I think there are other solutions to that one.
I think the "not having a change" matters much much more than the absolute value, we can campaign to have realistic hours for school or whatever else, that's a separate topic. Permanent DST lines up with my life better right now.
That doesn't work out so neatly for people affected by the sun's cycle.
The sun affects not just when people prefer to sleep, but also quality of sleep, duration, how refreshed they are, and during the daytime the profile of energy levels, hormones, brain function through the day. Just going to bed earlier doesn't compensate for that.
