What if instead of jumping back and forth an entire hour at a time, we adjusted the time by a minute every few weeks? We already do arbitrary "leap second" adjustments throughout the year. Just do the same thing with minutes instead of this stupid DST shit.
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@malcircuit Howbout a "business local standard time" that's basically calibrated by the calculated time of astronomical sunrise at that location.
With smartphones everywhere, and cheap smart displays, this kind of thing becomes feasible. Everyone has a "BLST" clock on their phones, and businesses have a BLST-aware sign in the door showing the current BLST and how long until they open or close...
I mean, yeah, complicated, but not totally out there.
Bonus: we could maybe use this opportunity to do a decimal-based time-system, just for this purpose (and hopefully it would start bleeding into other usages, after it started being familiar in a half-generation or so).
"That would be complicated."
Yeah, that's what computers are for. It's complicated, but predictable and deterministic. It's a math equation, not magic.