When you're as far north as Alaska, daylight savings stops making sense, because the difference in daylight hours over the year is huge. At Anchorage's latitud

When you're as far north as Alaska, daylight savings stops making sense, because the difference in daylight hours over the year is huge. At Anchorage's latitude, two weeks after changing back to standard time, sunrise is back at the same time it was before the change, and mornings will get a lot darker until you reach midwinter. In California, the effect of the change is noticeable, because the difference in daylight hours is small over the year, so people who have only ever lived in California or similar are the ones complaining about "having to go to school in the dark" as if that was some weird anomaly or tragedy.