Sure, I've read all the reasons as to why it started, but not only did they not make sense, they came off as ludicrous.
Now I doubt it's big oil as the author of the article contends, but I think he might be closer with his explanation of the Chamber of Commerce, though I believe Franklin had the right idea for the time, a time long past it's usefulness..
Interesting read none the less.

Can we all just agree to kill off this bull shit and leave time alone?

Benjamin Franklin is credited with the original concept that came to be known as Daylight Saving Time, when we "spring ahead," or turn the clocks ahead an hour around springtime. It was initially intended for people to get the most out of the natural daylight so they could burn fewer candles and later.

Downing says. That's why the petroleum industry has been a longtime supporter of the time change, he adds, noting the extended after-work sunlight hasn't definitively been proven to reduce traffic accidents, either, as sometimes claimed.
Beyond that, a 2008 University of California–Santa Barbara study looking at Indiana—a state the resisted Daylight Saving Time until 2006—found that Daylight Saving Time actually increased residential energy use to the tune of $8.6 million, with the biggest increase in household energy occurring during the autumn months. (This study didn't even factor in gasoline use.)
OK, so the time change is a flop in terms of saving energy. At least it helps the farmers, right? Not so much. "Farmers were vociferously opposed to Daylight Saving Time. They hated it from the start," explains Downing. "Farmers really used morning sunlight. Turning the clocks ahead had the effect of giving them one less hour of daylight."
Even today, many farmers lament this time of year because it disrupts their schedules and connection to the natural world. "That dramatic change from having the daylight in the morning to suddenly going back to darkness, it's kind of jolting,"
http://www.rodalenews.com/daylight-saving-time-myths

I wish they would put it where the sun don't shine.   

I go to bed around 11 or 12 and get up around 3 or 4.  My inter clock has been doing that for over 50+ years. 

Quote from: walkstall on November 28, 2014, 07:41:33 AM
I wish they would put it where the sun don't shine.   

I go to bed around 11 or 12 and get up around 3 or 4.  My inter clock has been doing that for over 50+ years.

Same here, 5 hrs is all I require. All DLST does is screw up all that is natural.

Quote from: Solar on November 28, 2014, 08:10:06 AM
Same here, 5 hrs is all I require. All DLST does is screw up all that is natural.

My system don't care if it DLST    I just don't like setting all the clock in the house.  I don't care what time it is.   But my wife likes a clock in each room that she can see across the room.