The Mutahi family: Daylight saving time (DST)....why?

Ok, I was wondering yesterday the whole day (well, almost ;) ) why is it that we really have to change the time to winter time and summer time?...I mean...nobody changes the time in Kenya for example? They all live with the same time all throughout the year...so why is it that we have to either take one hour back or add one hour ahead in a certain period of time? Yesterday felt so long even...it was somehow effecting the kids...they just stayed up and didn't want to go and sleep although they woke up the same time in the morning (I mean now the same time according to the ol' summertime :D ..the new time it was one hr earlier ;) )...

Anyhow...I just now checked from the good ol' google who created this DST and why?...and it is saying that Benjamin Franklin mentioned the idea in 1784 but that the modern idea of daylight saving time was proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson and it was first implemented during the First World War. Many countries have used it at various times since then.

So, this was actually just proposed and implemented even not so long time ago..and here we are just following what the entomologist came up with...is it then really the right way?

According to Wikipedia the practice has been both praised and criticized. Adding daylight to evenings benefits retailing, sports and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but can cause problems for evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun.

If I think of it in the above way, I hardly can see any use from the time change...I mean...ok...in summertime, the nights of daylight get longer but it would still do that even if we didn't change the time, right? :) We are just changing the time in our clocks...the creation of a man and following it that way....let's see in Kenya for example...many people don't have even clocks there..they follow the sunlight and they know what time it is from the sun and therefore they don't even use the 24hr system as we do...they have practically 12 hrs of sun and 12 hrs of moon....I mean...isn't that the way God created this world? :)

Anyways, I thought of this yesterday and found it pretty interesting...

Daylight saving time (DST)—also summer time in several countries^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] in British English, and European official terminology (see Terminology)—is the practice of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.^[7]