The nicest thing you can say about Daylight Savings these days is that it's a national way to coordinate seasonal schedule changes: not for environmental/energy reasons (the numbers don't support it) but to place additional daylight where people are using it (the evenings after work).

If people like Daylight Savings Time better than not, the real solution should just be to change normal work hours from "9 to 5" to "8 to 4". But that would be difficult to pull off as a culture without guidance, and the idea makes way too much sense for Congress to pull off. So we'll muddle along. At least we have the technology now that work schedules are likely going to be more flexible in the future, instead of less flexible.

If you ask me, though, we should just declare Daylight Savings permanent, then add another layer on top of it every year, until the entire country is using GMT. :)