This is insane from an astronomer's point of view.
Make winter time permanent, when noon (the sun being on the local meridian) is at 12:00, and let public services and businesses shift the opening hours by one hour.
I very strongly agree with this. However, the time change is so terrible that I just want it to stop even if that means we start lying about what "noon" means.
On the other hand, there have been a couple of times in the past when we've eliminated the time change and settled on daylight savings, and they've failed. A very common hypothesis about why they failed is that it's because it settled on daylight time.
This is insane from an astronomer's point of view.
Make winter time permanent, when noon (the sun being on the local meridian) is at 12:00, and let public services and businesses shift the opening hours by one hour.
I very strongly agree with this. However, the time change is so terrible that I just want it to stop even if that means we start lying about what "noon" means.
On the other hand, there have been a couple of times in the past when we've eliminated the time change and settled on daylight savings, and they've failed. A very common hypothesis about why they failed is that it's because it settled on daylight time.
The Romans had it right. 12 hours of daylight between sunrise and sunset. Super simple, none of this daylight saving business.