[mac01021]

> for me more light earlier has almost no value, but light at the end of the work day is worth a lot.

I agree with this, but why wouldn't we stay on standard time and just all switch to starting school and work an hour earlier?

It would achieve the same thing as permanent DST except it would also preserve the property of our time system that midnight and noon are the times that the sun is lowest and highest in the sky.

[jfrankamp]

Changing time is less expensive than billions of schedules. Noon at solar noon is already broken for so many people, I'm not sure it matters if its off a little more. I do find both equally arbitrary though.