Daylight Saving Time, Bye Bye!

I'm sure all my readers—in the Temperate Zone—have some opinion about the changing of the clock time twice a year: setting the clocks from 1:00 AM back to 2:00 AM (or something like that) in the spring, so that when your alarm rings at 6:00 in the morning by the clock, it's really 5:00 by the clocks of anyone who did not adjust their clocks.  This is nice, for anyone who had been unhappy about it being so light early in the day, when you're not out pub crawling with your friends.

Then, sometime in the fall, on a date that's approved by Congress (just like the date in the spring is), around 2:00 at night, you're supposed to set your clock back to 1:00, which means that when your alarm rings at 6:00, it isn't so horribly dark, and it's safer for little munchkins to head out to the school bus stop.  (When I was a kid, I rode a bike, and my night vision was OK, and—in retrospect—so was the night vision of motorists who did not knock me down for 12 years.

Some people just don't like the hassle of doing this clock changing thing, and I'm one of them.  Sure, with DST you get more evening daylight in the spring and summer, and that's nice for kids, and other people, unlike me, who go out a lot.  I figure, though, that businesses could change their hours, to begin their day a little earlier in the spring and summer, and let their workers out a little early, too.  Why fiddle with the clocks?  Schools could do the same; start school a little later, say at 8:30 AM in the dark of winter, and revert to early starts in the months with long daylight hours, so that kids can go home early, and practice their cheerleading, or whatever they do. 

There's not a lot of agreement as to which time should be taken as standard.  Should we have DST (daylight saving time) year round, so that the sun will be highest in the sky at 11:00 AM, or Standard Time year round, so that the sun is highest in the sky at 12:00 Noon?  Some people want the former, some the latter.  Some people don't care which; they just don't want the clock change. 

K(A)HB