Here’s what I don’t really get: the question of what the clock says in relation to the sun and the question of what time schools and businesses open are completely separate. We need to sort of agree on Q1, but we can make local decisions on Q2.
People in Maine should perhaps have more daylight saving by shifting opening times more than people in Florida, but in either case it would be a shifting of local start times: changing school start time from 7:45 to 8:45 in winter, for example.
There are safely drawbacks to the changes, forward or backwards, and there are local weather and sunlight considerations to account for in deciding to change start times or not, but local jurisdictions can make those determinations. Just leave the clocks alone.
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