If you want proof that this country is mad look no further than how we use daylight saving time. The emphasis is on saving, as in making it last longer.
The point of using DST is that people spend more of their time awake during daylight. The sensible thing to do would be to use it when daylight is short. Since the working day is skewed towards the afternoon and daylight saving time means the sun rises and sets later it would be logical to use it at the darkest time of the year. And yet that's exactly when the Great British people stop using it. During five months of the year you have to endure purgatory when everyone are making things more dismal than then have to be.
Did you know people spend most of their lives thinking noon is at 1 P.M. We spend most of our lives using daylight saving time rather than real time and it doesn't even make sense. I used to wonder why the light lasted so long in the summer. The reason is for most of their lives people use false time.
