I hate daylight saving time. It's a waste of time. The sun isn't going
to do anything different just because we want it to, and Bessy the cow
isn't going to give milk any sooner, just because Old McDonald's buyers
are the the farm an hour earlier. Traffic accidents spike at the
beginning of DST, because our internal clocks don't give a hoot what the
clock says either - we're losing an hour of sleep.
I say it's time to get rid of DST altogether.
There was a study when Indiana recently went DST - their energy
consumption went up, not down. Daylight Savings Time is like
cutting off the bottom of your blanket and sewing that piece to the
top.
Computers should have always been internally Zulu time, with time
zones only used for displaying. When it is important to know which
transactions happen first, setting back the clock screws things up.
China is on one time zone (while Siberia has loads of time zones
adjacent to it). Sports fans in the U.S. are learning ESPN time.
My son-in-law got an e-mail telling him to fly to Seattle for a
meeting. Outlook translated the time of the meeting to Rocky
Mountain Time (for a phone interview) - and he was late for his
meeting.
Livestock doesn't adjust to DST.
The world is getting smaller, Zulu should become second nature.