Daylight savings time is almost over,  does it really save energy or lives? I do know it’s a pain in the butt and unnecessary in this modern world. Arizona seems to survive without any problems not screwing with everyone’s clocks twice a year. China also seems to have luck with not using DST in fact the entire country operates under 1 time zone (GMT +8).  This is complete nonsense claiming that 'light' is a problem needing a solution, since we invented the electric light bulb, or more recently the 5 watt compact fluorescent. It's amazing how I can pretend it's daytime even when it's 4 am. It’s an great invention, and I no longer care if the sun is up or not.

In fact let’s have DST year round. Standard time is only in effect for a couple months anyway. Keeping DST through the winter would keep it light when most people get off work, which is when it actually matters anyway. I know I'd rather get up in the dark, and have an hour of daylight after work to play with, rather than getting up at dawn and wasting that hour getting ready for work.  If it's too dark when you get up or when you want to open your business, don't change the clock, change the time you get up or open your business.

If you are infact stuck on changing your clock you should be changing the time every day to make sure our time is as accurate as possible to the length of the day. Every day, 12 noon should be when the Sun is directly overhead, no matter where you are. Sure, this means changing time zones almost continuously while travelling, and at least daily while remaining stationary, but at least we won't have to deal with the confusion that comes from discovering that the Sun is directly overhead at 12:00:34 instead of 12 noon sharp! How can we call ourselves intelligent beings when our time system is so woefully inaccurate most of the time?

So if we really wanted some consistence to our idea of time we need to scrap daylight savings time and replace it with a system of several thousand time zones, each updated daily based on the predicted "high noon" for that particular day at that particular location. If the prediction ends up being off by a few microseconds on a particular day, just change the time to correct it right then and there! Sure, wristwatches will become orders of magnitude more complex, but it's the only way to have a truly sane and accurate system of time measurement. And after all, isn't that what we all really want here?