I agree, and I'm glad we'll probably never end up getting rid of DST. If we got rid of DST then I'd lose an extra hour of daylight on summer evenings which wou

I agree, and I'm glad we'll probably never end up getting rid of DST. If we got rid of DST then I'd lose an extra hour of daylight on summer evenings which would be disappointing. And in exchange I'd have to invest in blackout curtains because on the summer solstice the sun would shine through my East-facing window at ~4:07am. If we made DST permanent then the sun wouldn't rise until ~8:10am on the winter solstice which means a lot of kids in my neighborhood biking and walking to school in the dark in the winter. I'd be fine scrapping DST if schools and offices agreed to use "summer hours" and "winter hours" but coordinating such a switch twice a year seems like DST by another name.