I'm ambivalent about DST as a concept (see e.g. here: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/ https://leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst

I'm ambivalent about DST as a concept (see e.g. here: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/ https://leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/), but I feel like proponents of this scheme haven't really thought it through. "Permanent daylight time" is no different from just getting rid of time changes and shifting one time zone to the East. And of course the whole point of having time zones is so that can be somewhat close to the middle of the day at noon (and that "midnight" isn't too much before or after the middle of the night). The end result of this is that instead of saying "Oh my god I can't believe it's getting dark and it's only 4:30!", we'll quickly adapt and find ourselves saying "Oh my god I can't believe it's getting dark and it's only 5:30!". This would also mean waking up before dawn throughout most of the winter for most people in moderately northern latitudes with conventional schedules, which is likely to be terrible for sleep health. And yes, it's possible to adjust work and school schedules to be better in line with people's natural sleep rhythms, but then why not just do that and leave our timezones alone?