It works. And depending on where in a time zone you live, it can create real issues. Spokane and Boise for two examples.

This is probably something that needs to be decided on that alone. It probably should be a location decision. That won't help ease the problems with changing all the clocks on Wall Street but people are going to want their daylight and darkness at reasonable times.

Let it be gradual and natural.

I lived in Hawaii about 20 years, 23 degrees off the equator, and what was natural there was to have very little change from season to season. Every so often some businessman from the Mainland would move in and start agitating for Daylight Savings Time. I still remember with amusement that the newspaper sent a photographer out to record schoolkids standing in pre-dawn darkness at the bus stop to show what they’d all have to wlk to school in if this dumb idea was adopted locally.

I’ve lived in SoCal practically a lifetime now, and have definitely adapted — but I still hope that someday we just drop a completely out-dated practice.

Here in the northeast I could adapt and live with either one, but I just wish they would pick one and stick with it. Our children in the northeast are going to walk to school in the dark in either scenario, it will just change the months that it occurs in.

Right now is close to the shortest daylight time of the whole entire year.

Here's sunrise and sunset in Honolulu:

Sunrise Today: 7:00 am↑ 115° Southeast
Sunset Today: 5:51 pm↑ 245° West

So schoolkids in Hawaii are waiting for buses at 7 a.m.?

That's some brutal school hours.

And, frankly, I'm at a loss to understand why any businessman, Haole or otherwise, would agitate for DST where there's such a tiny difference between sunrise and sunset year round.

But, hey! You were there. All I have to go on is data.

…that they kind of thought the world revolved around them and their practices. The internet and multiple satellites have changed things a lot since I left in the late ‘70s — but the sun still rises and sets on its own schedule.

As it is, anyone involved in the stock market starts working at 2:00 a.m. straddling the time zones from Japan to New York to London. My husband’s boss’s wife is an international lawyer — they’ve settled on the Big Island, and she’s another one who’s at work in the wee hours.

Beyond that, I cannot say. I’m retired myself, and much has changed.

But it turns out they left it up to each state. I don’t like switching times, even an hour has a bad effect on me. I would prefer I guess the daylight savings time or whichever means it would be lighter later in the summer and the warmer months.