<<On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:41:27 -0700, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) said:
No. No. Just no. Don't ruin "sun is overhead at noon". Permanent non-DST, sure. Permanent-DST is confused people thinking DST is cool.
For most people, the sun *isn't* overhead at noon, and hasn't been since the introduction of standardized time zones. (Where I am right now, *with* DST, the sun is overhead at 12:11. In Eastport, Maine, on the eastern edge of the Eastern Time Zone, the sun is overhead at 11:53. In Traverse City, Michigan, close to the western edge of Eastern Time, the sun is overhead at 13:07. In San Francisco, it's at 12:40 -- which would be 11:40 without DST, recall -- and in Portland it's at 12:35. In Anchorage, 12:13.) DST, "permanent" or not, is people thinking that it's more difficult to change "business hours" than it is to change what the clocks say. "Permanent DST" is unimaginative people who can't fathom that there could be another time zone immediately to their east. -GAWollman