[benchaney]

> why don't we just start everything one hour earlier?

Because that is an impossible coordination problem, while moving to permanent DST could be done easily.

I don’t see why being close to solar time matters, when it is such a moving target. Time systems are tools. They aren’t propositions about the natural world. It is only important for them to be accurate representations of some underlying natural phenomena when that makes them more useful as tools. I don’t see how nearness to Solar time does that on the scale we are talking about.