It is getting close to the end of October and the biannual time-change ritual. The change of time from Daylight Savings to Central Standard in the fall and then back to Daylight Savings in the spring always prompts letters as to why we continue this ritual. Maybe this will help.
If we stayed on Central Daylight time throughout the year, the latest summer sunset (end of June) would be at 7:30 p.m. That’s livable, though it would play havoc with summer golf leagues. But although the evening daylight is being cut short, the summer sun would be rising at 4:15 a.m. That means the sky would be bright (civil twilight) at 3:40 in the morning–birds chirping and all.
The alternative would be Daylight Savings Time throughout the year–not bad when you consider the earliest the sun would set is 5:20 p.m. But at the end of December, the sun would not rise until 8:19 in the morning, and we would be getting up and out to work or school in the dark.
