I think the underlying goal is to have people not be sleeping at times when the sun is up because that's a waste. In the bay area daylight hours will vary, goi

I think the underlying goal is to have people not be sleeping at times when the sun is up because that's a waste. In the bay area daylight hours will vary, going as low as 10 hours in winter and as high as 14 hours in summer. Standard time in December has 5pm occur after sunset. Assume a standard 8 hour workday of 9 to 5. That's 8 of the 10 daylight hours dedicated to "work" with none left over for after work leisure time. Numbers above are rough estimates, don't come at me with exact sunset time of some arbitrary day. I propose that a very large percentage of workers do not do a type of work that is dependent on sunlight. The vast majority of people work indoors in a building with electric lights. Leisure time on the other hand is often spent outdoors. Or would be if we were to arrange our clocks so that there was more daylight after work. Let's go wildly overboard with this thought experiment: Create a time zone overlay called "Fun in the Sun Time". FitST has 12 noon occur around the time when the sun rises. Everyone will have woken up while it's still dark out using some electric lights at home, then gone to work (where the lights are on 100% of the work hours regardless of what timezone, real or imagined). Lunch break takes place during sunlight hours, and after work there are still at least 5 hours to go hiking/biking/sun bathing/BBQing/whatever. This is a bit extreme, obviously, but a somewhat less extreme version of this would be to have the bay area run on Eastern Standard Time (or equivalent) year round. This 3 hour shift would synchronize businesses here with the east coast. Or we could do the easiest, least intrusive thing, shift to PDT now in March and never switch back.