The problem isn't daylight savings. The problem is that the spread of timezones throughout the world throws up some awfully odd things. There's very few place

The problem isn't daylight savings. The problem is that the spread of timezones throughout the world throws up some awfully odd things. There's very few places in the world where noon is actually true noon (ie, sun at highest point of day). Where I live, we have no summer DST. In the height of summer it is bright at 4 am, and dark at 7pm. However, the timezone is so ridiculously wide that any change to create a later summer evening means that for some people, it would be blazingly hot at 7pm and not dark until closer to 9pm. Society adopted timezones as a measure of co-ordination for things like rail timetables and telephone calls. Prior to that, everyone set noon to 'true noon'. In reality, more timezones should be introduced, possibly sliced down to the 30 minutes. Because society is a lot more computerised, dealing with multiple timezones is a lot less hassle than it once was. I can get the exact local time for any place on earth in a nanosecond on the internet. Scheduling software automatically calculates it for me. Personally, I want daylight savings so I can claw back some of that unused daylight that gets wasted early in the morning. But I don't want to force someone who lives 600 miles away from me to deal with the consequences of that. But a more fractured set of timezones would help immensely.