Against Daylight Saving!

How can you save the daylight? Wise people say, advance your clocks by one hour and the daylight will be saved!

Daylight-saving time (DST) has started here from this Sunday, and still I am not able to convince myself if it is really useful. Why is it observed at all? I asked many and two of the responses were:

• This is for the farmers. They need more sunlight! If clocks are shifted by an hour, farmers will get up early and will do more work in their farms! But bhaiya, why should farmers look at the clock at all to decide if they should work or not?

• This is to save energy. How? Benjamin Franklin told us. Hmmm... good, could you please explain, how it works? Well, I heard that people sleep one hour early and do not consume much electricity in the night. Wow! what an ingenious idea to force an early sleep on them by making them fool and by playing with their biological clocks. All that too "save" (I don't know if it really does) energy.
  

So, many countries save energy by changing their clocks. But I am sure, there are much better ways to save energy. Belgium boasts of its highly illuminated highways in the nights, and as is claimed, The Great Wall of China and Belgian highways are the only two man-made structures visible from moon! (see here). Is it really worth doing that? I am sure, they can save the energy by spending less for this purpose and reducing lights to what is practically required (so as not to be visible from moon!)

Observing DST, not only violets a correspondence between the "God made real" time and the clock time, but also gives rise to some funny incidents. Two of them are mention here in Wikipedia. It says:

"Supposing some unfortunate lady was confined with twins and the first child was born 10 minutes before 3 o'clock British Summer Time. ... the time of birth of the two children would be reversed. ... Such an alteration might conceivably affect the property and titles in that House."

This is rare, but then there are not so rare and inevitable situations too. When the clocks are changed, what is its effect on flight and train schedules? Here is a funny but true stuff I found on this site. They mention:

"To keep to their published timetables, trains cannot leave a station before the scheduled time. So, when the clocks fall back one hour in October, all Amtrak trains in the U.S. that are running on time stop at 2:00 a.m. and wait one hour before resuming. Overnight passengers are often surprised to find their train at a dead stop and their travel time an hour longer than expected. At the spring Daylight Saving Time change, trains instantaneously become an hour behind schedule at 2:00 a.m., but they just keep going and do their best to make up the time."

I wonder how do they stop flights in the middle of the sky for one hour? I strongly criticize the idea of "Daylight Saving". Standard scales should not be tampered. I am sure I can not teach people running fast by adding a few more centimeters in the meter scale.