I’m sitting in a hotel ballroom, waiting for the CANE meeting to start. Most of Michigan probably ought to be in Central (and possibly Atlanta), but there’s a limit to how much I’m willing to tap out on my phone. 
I can say, from past experience, that figuring out an optimal set of time zone definitions is a fascinating project to abuse Excel with. (Probably still interesting if done with Python or R.)
I avoid living in places where it’s unbearably hot until the sun sets. It helps that i don’t mind cold winters.
So f the rest of us who do?
I mean, “unbearably hot” is subjective. If you live somewhere that you find unbearably hot the entire time the sun is up, you might want to consider moving. Especially if you like doing stuff outdoors.
Lots of people move to avoid cold weather.
Like much of the temperate zone, it’s nice in the spring and fall, too cold in the winter, too hot in the summer. 
That’s how I feel. You can bundle up against the cold but you can’t do stuff in extreme heat outdoors regardless of how little you wear.
In the farming community in Ontario where I grew up, there was a semi-retired couple who market gardened there during the Canadian summer and did the same on their farm in Chile (she was Chilean) during the Canadian winter. Wonderful lifestyle imo. They are in their 90’s now but their children and grandchildren have carried on the businesses.
They need to pair up with an avid skier / snowboarder. Your friends live in Canada from April through September and Chile from October through March. The snowboarder does the opposite. They share the costs. This way they get a private residence with their preferred weather year-round and they only have the expense of maintaining one home!
If it’s too hot until 10:30 or 11PM, would switching that to “it’s too hot until 9:30 or 10PM” actually change anything for you? Both those hours are passed when most adults usually get together to do things, stores and restaurants are typically closed around then, etc.
Is it possible you just don’t like summer and because of that associate it with the time change? But standard time would bring no reprieve?
I mean it helps. It’s only unbearable at 10 PM on the hottest days. There’s more days where it starts to get tolerable earlier. But if the time that it started to get tolerable was an hour earlier every day that would be a massive improvement. As I mentioned, two hours earlier would be even nicer (change the clocks in the other direction… opposite what we do now) but I’m not sure that’s worth the hassle of switching clocks twice a year.
I also don’t like changing clocks. It’s hard for me to keep my same routine but just get up and go to bed an hour earlier.
I’d also love to just change time zones. But I’m not even all that close to the current (massively too far west) border for the next time zone over.
So… they’d be sharing the time in their homes??
That sounds… GREAT!! Where do I sign!!!
Yeah, whether the snowboarder owns one and they own the other or all names on both or something so that they’re splitting the costs and the homes are in use year-round.
I don’t know how you go about setting this up. Just reminded of a friend of a friend who was a snowboard instructor and lived in perpetual winter, going between Colorado and somewhere in New Zealand IIRC.
IFYP
Sounds like twig needs to install ac…
Hmmm, RNN.
I’m both pro-DST & anti-DST. When it comes down to it, if I was forced to choose, I’d be anti-DST.
However, here’s the company I keep:
Why not just do what the Chinese do?
Rise at 11? China’s Single Time Zone Means Keeping Odd Hours - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
DST is bullshit.
You posted that before you got to enjoy your extra hour of sunlight today.
I would’ve enjoyed the same amount of sunlight had I not been shorted an hour of sleep last night.