Why don't we switch daylight savings time?

Question

As many of you know daylight savings time has been moved forward by about 4 weeks this year, supposidly to help conserve energy.
This got me thinking, why don't we just move daylight savings time to the winter months? Summer days are long enough as it is, wouldn't it make more sense to try and use daylight savings to balance out the lenght of the days? It would save energy in the winter, cause the sun wouldn't go down at what seems like 4 o'clock, and we wouldn't have to use as much electricity for lighting.

I realize that the actual amount of light produced by the sun that reaches the planet is the same no matter what we do.
During the winter months the sun gets into setting at about 5:30, sometimes a bit earlier, and it's light when I wake up. In the summer the sun sets at 8:00, and it's dark when I wake up.
What I'm proposing is reversing daylight savings time so that the sun would set at about 6:30 in winter, and 7:00 in the winter. I'm not suggesting that we capture light from the sun, and then move it through time and space....

Answer 1

Umm, you can't move daylight within the year; you can only move it within the same day, and all you're really doing is setting the clock so that high noon in the center of the time zone is at 1:00 pm and not at 12:00 pm.

The amount of daylight is the same in each day no matter whether you're on Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time. It will be 12 hours on March 21, but under DSt it will be from 7-7 and not from 6-6 for the center of the time zone. You can't take sunlight from June and move it to December because the earth don't work that way.

Answer 2

Why don't we get rid of it all together? I could never understand the logic behind it anyway. Either save daylight all year or don't do it at all.

Answer 3

Either way is fine with me.