This has been done before. I believe that at one point in the '70s the country stayed on DST all year long. In the winter, kids were waiting for school buses in the dark.
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Originally posted by AGDee
Anybody who extends DST doesn't have kids, as my sis Wendi noted. It's IMPOSSIBLE to get kids to bed at 9 or 9:30 when it's still broad daylight out then. Personally, I prefer having it be light in the mornings when I'm trying to wake up and then dark when it's bed time. Its hard enough to get out of bed in the morning, but at least if the sun is streaming through the window, it's not so bad.
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This is very true. I don't have kids of my own, but... When I was about 3 years old, my parents and I took a vacation in Canada in June. We were far enough north that the sun didn't set until 10:30 or so. My parents were trying to convince me to go to sleep at 8 or so, and I refused because the sun was still high in the sky. They closed the curtains of our hotel room and told me the sun had gone down. I walked right over, yanked the curtains open, and said "No it hasn't!" Hehe, I've always been cheeky and stubborn like that
