Last winter I tried as an experiment setting up my own personal time zone, and not "falling back" an hour. Since I live in an offgrid cabin, having the sun stil

Last winter I tried as an experiment setting up my own personal time zone, and not "falling back" an hour. Since I live in an offgrid cabin, having the sun still up at 6 pm in midwinter is especially useful -- it means an extra hour when I'm using direct solar power while working and not draining batteries. It was occasionally confusing to visitors that clocks were not at the time they expected. Otherwise, I didn't have many problems with scheduling; I work with people in many timezones anyway so having to adjust times is standard practice. If I forgot to make an adjustment, I'd arrive early. Restaurants were occasionally annoying when I wanted lunch and they were still finishing late breakfast service, but they tend to have some crossover time anyway, and I don't mind a 1 pm lunch either. I'm planning to do it again this winter. BTW, tech-wise, it's easy enough to configure a personal time zone, at least on Linux. Just set TZ=JEST+4. (And be happy not changing the remaining dumb clocks. The only clock I had to manually adjust was on my android phone.)