In the USA we just went though a time change. The majority of the world does not do daylight savings time, however some of us are still stuck on legacy systems.
The most common answer to why daylight savings time was used is that it was good for the farmers, however this answer is largly mythological in nature. Farmers will get up and work regardless of what time the clock on the wall says it is. Another answer is to save electricity. Factories used to use daylight to augment or replace lighting during the day, so if the factory works during daylight hours, it is then saving money.
These reasons are not valid reasons anymore, if they ever were.
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