> I'd kill for a peek into the parallel universe where it was permanent standard time that was likely to get adopted and see how much effort went into researchi

> I'd kill for a peek into the parallel universe where it was permanent standard time that was likely to get adopted and see how much effort went into researching the ill effects of that choice to convince people with enough FUD to keep daylight time switching going. You don't need to kill anyone. You can just travel to AZ or HI, neither of which changes their clocks for DST.