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.

Plautus, 200 BCE:

„Der Fluch der Götter jenem, der das Mittel fand, Tagesstunden streng zu unterscheiden. Verflucht sei auch, wer an diesem Ort die Sonnenuhr errichtet, die meine Tage elendig zerschneidet und zerhackt in kleine Stückchen.“

“The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.”