The amazing thing about daylight savings is that we would rather *mess with the definition of time itself* than give people the freedom and flexibility to start their day an hour earlier or later as they see fit. Problems can only be solved through coercive conformity.
@attoparsec Before Michigan started observing DST in 1973, worked at a place (GMC Truck & Coach Engineering Department, now defunct) where they changed the starting time from 8 am to 7:15 am during the summer. Sort of a roll-your-own DST.