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DST must die. That's it. It's 21 century already. Why?

Because we live on an approximately spherical world whose rotation is not tidal locked to the star it orbits, that world rotates around an axis that is not perpendicular to its orbital plane around said star, we have a biology that uses sunrise to synchronize its internal clocks to the planet's rotation, we have spread to occupy regions of the world that are not near its equator, and we align our timekeeping to midnight or noon.

Because I enjoy having light in my morning in Winter, but allowing the extra hours of daylight to accumulate in the evening in summer.

The slight disconcertingness of the hour changes is worth it.

A lot of people (myself included) like it. Is that a rational reason? No, but it is a portent of how difficult it may be to get rid of it.

That's a perfectly rational reason! I like it, too.

Yeah, it makes it harder for programmers to accommodate. I'll play my violin for them next July when it's nice and bright outside at 7:30pm. :)

That might be a valid reason, but it's almost certainly not an explanation of why things are the way they are now or why they might change in the future. I don't recall there ever being a vote on the subject.

California voted in 2018 to abolish DST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7) — and it won 60%/40% (technically to allow the legislature to do it).

An important technicality, since it's now 2021 and we are still observing DST.

I'd prefer we stay on daylight time all year around, eliminate standard time. (Northeast US here.)

Because I don't like it getting light at 4am and dark at 5pm.

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