My vote is to select the average of standard and DST.
Sadly people seem to have as religious a belief about being an integer number of hours different from GMT/UTC (perhaps some anti-Newfie bias?) as they do about specific numbers on the clock being related to daylight / nighttime / certain activities.
I hereby nominate @Maphistos_Sidekick for Supreme Ruler.
We’ll finally be in synch with India.
Not watching it just yet, but the real issue is that they’re pretty furking wide, and there will always be some people on the far west side complaining about one thing, and people on the far east side complaining about the other. As if their opinions have any weight.
The fact that in North America, the dividing lines between Eastern/Central, and Central/Mountain are too far west for an assortment of reasons doesn’t help.
Atlanta, Indianapolis, and the LP of Michigan all should be in Central. In Texas, Lubbock and Midland-Odessa really should be in Mountain.
Can’t move until Mini Me finishes school. 
Well there’s the 4th of July fireworks (which start way too late because it gets dark so late) and the fact that Mini Me doesn’t want to go to bed in broad daylight (sunset is after her bedtime).
But even more than the light is the heat. Want to go for a walk after dinner? Forget it… it’s way too hot. If it’s semi-pleasant walking weather you want, that starts around 9:30 PM, maybe later.
I grew up in Cincinnati and they do their fireworks on Labor Day rather than the 4th of July because the sun sets so much earlier on Labor Day. Things John Hancock didn’t consider when he signed the Declaration of Independence!
Unneeded light at 4 AM is no problem whatsoever. I’m asleep so it doesn’t bother me in the least.
I will say that this is slowly getting better. Climate change appears to be resulting in my little corner of the world having cooler summers while the rest of the world gets hotter. But… climate change is not exactly a great argument in favor of DST, which is awful.
Yes, if I was one time zone west (like stay where I am but switch which time zone we are in) and the sun set a hour earlier than it does, then DST would be significantly less obnoxious. I still dislike changing clocks, but in parts of the country it’s not too awful after they’re changed & my body’s sleep clock is adjusted.
Why do Baptists hate switching back and forth with regards to Daylight Savings Time?
Because they believe Once Saved, Always Saved.
Yeah, sure, average temperature in Copenhagen in July is 70 degrees. Danes aren’t waiting for the sun to set in order to begin enjoying the evening.
DST would be far less annoying if one viewed evening sunshine as a plus rather than a minus.
Well, global warming may make it harder, but I’ve mostly managed to live places where the temperatures are not horrible hot after 6pm in the evening, even if the sun is still up.
I might need to move to one of those places.
The NAIC is holding its national meeting in Phoenix. Because Arizona does not do Daylight Saving Time, it’s the same as Pacific Daylight Time, i.e., Mountain Standard Time. I’m sure many are confused. 
When I went to Arizona for Spring Training one year I went the weekend the clocks changed. So I changed an hour from PST to MST when I went down there (I think on Thursday night) and then when I came home Monday morning I didn’t change because MST = PDT and they changed while I was gone.
That was kind of weird.
My infamous trip to Hawaii last fall (got a stomach bug, wife spent time in an ER, had to keep changing hotels and pay to change our plane tickets home because she took awhile to be safe to fly without creating biohazard concerns…) spanned the change back from DST to standard time.
Hawaii doesn’t observe DST.
It was extremely pleasant to not experience the jarring effects of the time change…or at least having those effects masked by jet lag.
That wasn’t the first time that I’ve experienced the “jet lag negates the time change headache”. A couple of years ago, I took a quick trip from the East Coast to the West Cost, spanning the spring time change. It was a recreational trip, so I didn’t need to pay attention to my clock, aside from ensuring I got back to the airport in time to make my flight. My internal clock was sufficiently weirded out from the brief foray into West Coast sunrise/sunset times that I had no perceived discomfort from the loss of the hour due to DST.
The jet lag thing is a fun reminder of the amount of complaining this thread gets twice a year when most of us have happily taken on multiple hour time changes for travel.
Watchoo talkin’ about Mr President?!?!?!?
Oh…carry on then.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… it’s two totally different things. When I’m traveling my whole routine is upended so adjusting to a different time is not that big of a deal.
When we go on or off DST my routine is exactly the same except shifted. That’s a LOT harder for me to deal with.